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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> M$ Sues its Loyal Customers
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>> | An insurance company in China was found to
>> | have 450 unlicenced copies of some of M$âs
>> | software. A court awarded $706 a copy,
>> | $318000. The insurance company had negotiated
>> | with M$ and rejected $30 a copy as
>> | âirrationalâ. I would bet Free Software is
>> | looking pretty good to those involved now.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The fact that the customer thought $30 a copy
>> | was too much should tell us something.
>> | GNU/Linux and home-grown apps is the way to go
>> | if they need special stuff. How many
>> | programmer-years (in China) for $318000? Do
>> | the maths.
>> `----
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>> http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/04/23/m-sues-its-loyal-customers/
>>
>> "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy
>> than when there's not."
>>
>> --Bill Gates
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> Linux with WINE looking good as replacement to Goatse politics
> - some of those big corporations in China can fund the WINE project
> to make it better and also fund open source versions of their
> software to make open source replacements better.
A lot of free/libre substitutes to applications that may require wine (PS for example) are also
available and they improve over time. Firefox is a good example.
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~~ Best of wishes
Unix *is* user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
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