From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: 10 Jun 1993 22:54:28 GMT
In article <C8FA17.HIG@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
> There are a couple of other points. First of all, for every licensed
>copy of windows there are N unlicensed (i.e. pirate) copies. MS does not like
>to talk about this very much, but nonetheless, you have to admit that it is
>going on.
Bull. Utter hogwash. Yes, there are a lot of unlicensed copies of
windows, but not "N for every 1" legal copy. No way, not with dozens
of PC makers bundeling the crap with their machines LEGALLY.
And what do you mean "MS doesn't like to talk about?" Shameful
family secret that not everything is right in the world? My venerable
rear end! Bill "check out my new $50M multi-media mansion" Gates is
constantly screaming bloody murder about how everybody is robbing
him and how nobody has respect for his intellectual property rights.
Anyway, the bottom line is that the sales figures for windows 3.1
don't even come within an order of magnitudes of the number of people
out there actually using it, never mind the other way around.
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