On Tuesday 19 September 2006 15:15 BearItAll wrote:
> I couldn't see where MS shot itself in the foot.
>
> It has a right to defend it's license. As we have a right to defend ours.
> If we are willing to accept piracy of MS win, music, films and TV shows
> then we can't really grumble if some enterprise takes up a linux, slaps
> some closed source goodies onto it and sells it on to the public ignoring
> our license altogether.
You are absolutely correct.
In fact, if one wishes to advocate Linux, as in "encourage others to use
it", one ought imo to be a leading light in helping MS and anybody else to
defend their licence. Certainly I have found myself of late to have much
less sympathy with anyone violating licence terms. I'm quite cold-blooded
now when asked for help - if it's a "borrowed" CD, or if I suspect that it
is, for example, I just refuse to have anything to do with it. If they
want to break the law, they are on their own.
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