re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|I think the World average of one in five XP installs are Pirated sounds [right??].
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Again, who is going to connect to a M$ server knowing WGA will catch him?
Back at the start, M$ had the kill switch activated
--until they saw how inaccurate it was...and they can turn it back on any time.
|In places like Asia the pirated versions are probably 95 or higher percent.
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Maybe 95% of *Windoze* boxes, but the installed Windoze base there is less
(outside S.Korea[1]).
Linux has better support for multiple languages.
...not to mention superior security (I don't think of Asians as stupid).
Linux is also a better software development platform--even for 8 year olds
...and I DO think of Asians as the next wave there.
Outside English-speaking countries, Free(dom) Software is becoming the norm.
...and have you seen what's happening with the London Stock Exchange?
Big hint: Their 100% M$ stack fell on its face
and they are replacing it with---wait for it---Linux (for less than half the price).
Most folks are also discovering that WINE runs their Windoze-compatible apps
as well as Windoze can--sometimes BETTER (Vista).
...and it's easier to just have your Linux Package Manager install software for you
than it is to go visit your local warez guy then do installs the Windoze way.
|In USA it is probably pretty low since the major PC manufactures are regulated.
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Not so much regulated as they are M$'s bitches.
...and as long as the machine ships with *some* OS, they're kosher.
You've also overlooked e.g. BitTorrent, x86 Macs running Windoze,
and vendors who ship machines with only a FreeDOS CD--or installed Linux.
With computers getting ever smaller (can you say ARM?),
that last one is becoming increasingly common.
[1] from the Usenet Archive:
South Korea has trapped itself with an expensive single-source technology.
The original article:
cache
of http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52401.html
Man, I hate it when dudes can't properly spell the name of what they're covering
(no hyphen).
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