On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 22:47 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > So I find that in social circles one is not supposed to say that I used > pitared copies of DOS 3, 4 and 5 before switching to a pirated copy of > Windows 3 and 3.1, and later a pirated version of Windows 95, followed by > copyright infringement of Windows 98, Win ME and Win XP.
or that the indian software industry was built on pirated copies of borland c compilers. (at least in the early days - i don't know how widespread piracy within the software industry is today...) >The only damn thing that's not pirated is this damn Linux that I use. indeed, one of the reasons the growth of linux in china is _much_ less than advertised is that the chinese government doesn't crack down on pirated software - even within government - as it promises to do. which goes to show that all the "national security" arguments favouring linux (popular in china, for some reason i haven't heard them so much in india) are not reflected in actions as much as in words. -rishab
