On Tuesday 13 December 2005 09:34, Robin Laing wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > On Monday 12 December 2005 4:53 pm, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > > > The funniest thing about that link, at least when I visited it, is the > > Flash ad offering a $50,000 reward for turning in illegal software > > users.... To get to that ad staring me in the face from a link on this > > list - there's some irony there. > > That ad placement sort of says something about THG, too... > > I guess I missed the ad as I tend to ignore most ad's and block most > pop-ups. Natural ignorance. :) > > Of course I don't support software piracy when you can get it for free > with Linux or open source software. Okay so it seems to be a back > handed way of getting Linux onto more computers. I was speaking to the irony - you had to see the ad to get the visual gestalt. I don't support software piracy whether or not you can get it for free with Linux - I work for a software company that writes code to implement features missing in Windows. I just prefer the open-source model (and I can see a place for both models co-existing side by side) and am gravitating to it for my non-work use. Now, I'm even using Linux at work all the time to troubleshoot problematic Windows machines ;-) The Windows licensing model as increasingly being followed by the downstream vendors for Windows software has reached levels of the absurd - the talk of implementing code into the hardware to check your licensing for example. Or the recent Sony root-kit scandal. Or the predatory practices of companies like Symantec. But, I'm digressing.... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
