Inspired Muck

• Posted: Sep 30th 2004, 17:55

Reading my news again and I found a little gold nugget about why people buying linux PC solutions are Windows pirates. I can understand that there is likely to be a lot of spin on articles like these, especially as it came from the Neowin website, but I can’t fathom why people are so blind to some basic truths:

People don’t have to buy a computer with an OS installed in order to pirate Windows XP. Ok, ok settle down please? I’m sure you’ve been baffled by too much television. Turn that dumb tube off and listen. Piracy is going on under your very noses! Shocked? You shouldn’t be. It’s not always to be seen as an international crime. I remember the days when I used to wander down to Woolworths and pick up a few blank tapes so I could make a copy of the latest Now album. You just have to scale things a little.

I encountered someone who couldn’t scale things on the comments thread of the above Neowin article. I’m not trying to infer that he is a retard… He’s just retarded:

i’m not complaining about mac,in fact MAC is a great OS,probably the best of all operating systems out there and is an american OS.and everybody pays for it,it isn’t free u stupid fool.i’m OK with that

the other guy

I was merely highlighting the fact that I use a free operating system on one machine yet still am willing to pay for a legal copy of an operating system. I have no wish to start flamewarring over which is the better OS

My response

u can’t imagine the impact it could cause,in global economy a wide migration to linux

You couldn’t predict it either. There are more things to the world than home users pirating XP. Educational institutions, businesses and governments all make their contribution to a national and international economy.

(i think it’s impossible because is way behind in technology and patents)

That isn’t entirely true. There is a lot of software out there which benefits from the people working in open source arena. I’m not saying these people are achieving multi-million dollar status but they are making a mark which aids future software development.

anyway i’m not worried,this news corroborate my ideas,not only is the malicious impact of linus trovalds language

Linus Torvald’s language is Finnish.

(foreign guy from finland)

I ask that you show a little respect. I am a foreign guy too. You may perhaps say that he is Finnish.

also the recent adoption boost of linux for simply installing a pirated WINDOWS XP.microsoft knows this,and thats why they haven’t cracked illegal copies of windows,and let them update too,obvious.

I don’t understand these statements. I don’t see how shipping a computer with Linux is reason to believe that someone will install a pirated version of XP. The microsoft update system is flawed in that it relies on a rudimentary http service to ensure a person remains updated. I don’t trust a company who decides that I have an insecure machine.

the windows XP starter edition is a good move.for closing the gap between Windows xp costs and linux

I agree to some extent. Microsoft should drop their price anyway. The OS isn’t really worth that much.

so think a minute,how much microsoft had given to your countries,how many jobs,specially to americans,technology innovations,taxes for the goverment,that then goes for public investments,who maded the revolution of PC’s,i’ts a legacy anyways

I also think of Sun, Novell, McDonalds, KFC, Pepsi-co, Britvic, Carlsberg-Tetley’s, Guinness, HMV, Rover, Rolls-Royce, The National Parks, Butlins, Spar and the rest of the endless list of companies, businesses and corporations which have an effect upon an economy. Not one of them is the keystone to my nation’s economy. Neither is Bill’s Microsoft.

BE PATRIOT!

Royalist thank you. British. Coming from the island called Great Britain.