Bob's point B is actually valid. I remember reading news stories of MS actually promoting "piracy" of their products in Asian markets in order to get people hooked on MS products. ----- Original message ----- From: "John J. Trammell" <trammell+tclug at el-swifto.com> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:25:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Poll topic- I use linux because... On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:07:22AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Bob Hartmann wrote: > >> 3. Stealing from Microsoft and Adobe is wrong. > > (A) It isn't "stealing" because you are not taking anything away from > them when you make a copy of something. It's not like taking > someone's purse. It's more like taking a photo of someone's purse. Utter nonsense. In today's legal climate, regardless of your opinion of the matter, it is a prosecutable offense, and it is irresponsible of you to say otherwise. > (B) Microsoft and Adobe want you to do it. It is much better for them > that you use their software without paying them than it is for you to > use other software (GNU/Linux, The Gimp, etc.) without paying them. > Sure, they´d rather be paid, but that is unrealistic when they charge > $750 for a product. That means they are pricing most of us out of the > market on purpose. See above. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list