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How Pirated Software Impacts Free Software
jmglov writes "Dave Gutteridge has an unusual take on why people are not interested in saving money by using a free-as-in-beer OS like Linux or *BSD: because Windows is free. At least, that is an all-too-common perception, thanks to bundling and piracy. Bundling is a well-known problem to the adoption of open source operating systems, so Dave takes a look at the piracy issue in depth. His title may offend you, but his well-written article will most likely get you thinking hard about the question, 'how much does Windows cost?'"
Sucky sucky five dolla
Piracy puts legitimate companies like mine out of business, along with your commie socialist free-software bullshit. With you all running pirated copies of Photoshop so you can rip off hard working individuals' innovations and bastardise them into your pirate 'Gimp' product running on your insecure Linux hobby OS and not buying true American software, I've only been able to go abroad twice this year! (By the way, we all know Linux is only based in Europe so you e-Terrorists can keep on shitting all over Microsoft's patents, if we got you in a US courtroom we'd tear you to shreds, you freeloading pirates)
People don't want Linux not only because Windows is free, but because Windows is much better.
fucking dick sucking faggots like to suck them dicks and take it up the ass in the name of linux. they suck the dicks of heroin addicts in public shithouses. after this they beg to get fucked up the ass by a big dick while praising linus.
The reason no one bothers with the real free software and decides to pirate is because most free software is shit. It's plain and simple.