From: KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 17:54:15 GMT
In article <1v8e34$p2j@slab.mtholyoke.edu> on
10 Jun 1993 22:54:28 GMT you write:
>
>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.
>
I would have to agree. Bill is screaming up a storm, and why would anyone
bother with an unlicensed copy of MS-Losedows when it comes free with
a proof of purchase from almost any box of cereal(no pun intended)!
Yea, and you need to respect the guys intellectual property rights.. to
other peoples intellectual property.
>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.
>--
>Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu | Vending machines SHOULD respond to a [finger]
>South Hadley, MA, USA | request with a list of all items currently
>--Unix is dead, long live Unix-- | available for purchase... -RFC1288
Kevin
-Linux is fixin what Windog MS'd up!!!!!