From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4563c75f$4{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The point was, though, that this kind of use is casual piracy which is
>> what you were asking for an example of.
>
> It's easily balanced out by those who buy a machine that comes with
> windows
> and then wipe it and install linux.
>
> There is no money to be made by fighting this sort of piracy, it's a joke.
> Make it impossible and you just promote the competition,

There's an interesting tidbit there: "Make it impossible and you just
promote the competition". So in a way, the "casual" piracy
could even be viewed as a way to hurt competition.

> nobody is going to spend $250 for an OS to make $100 worth
> of old hardware run even slower than before.

So true.


Antti Kurenniemi

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