To me, this is just an organization pirating information using the digital age. While I don't condone it, I also don't condemn it, or the defense against it. I welcome responses, of course.
My TRS80 had a tape (cassette) drive for storage. A old friend at the time used reel tapes and so I learned networking via reel to cassette based "network storage" devices (using the "PC"s as the nodes, of course). It was S L O W!
One of my clients has been upgraded to Win7 on the front office machine out of cost vs. time dictating the new machine was worth the lack of downtime for an actual repair. It's different in the back office, where the server needs many hours of work to fix a viral mess. However, the applications just don't run on less expensive client machines.
When the O/S no longer works on the hardware you have/can replace with, just install Ubuntu. Then you not only don't have to buy a new PC, but you don't have to buy all new programs for the new OS.
Do the other 33% use Windows 7, Windows Mobile, or like me just use Linux. I'm a windows user. I have a netbook with XP (I usually boot into Chrome), a couple of Vista machines, a Windows 7 machine, but when I am happy I am sitting on an Ubuntu 10.10 machine at my favorite desk.
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To me, this is just an organization pirating information using the digital age. While I don't condone it, I also don't condemn it, or the defense against it. I welcome responses, of course.
My TRS80 had a tape (cassette) drive for storage. A old friend at the time used reel tapes and so I learned networking via reel to cassette based "network storage" devices (using the "PC"s as the nodes, of course). It was S L O W!
One of my clients has been upgraded to Win7 on the front office machine out of cost vs. time dictating the new machine was worth the lack of downtime for an actual repair. It's different in the back office, where the server needs many hours of work to fix a viral mess. However, the applications just don't run on less expensive client machines.
When the O/S no longer works on the hardware you have/can replace with, just install Ubuntu. Then you not only don't have to buy a new PC, but you don't have to buy all new programs for the new OS.
Do the other 33% use Windows 7, Windows Mobile, or like me just use Linux. I'm a windows user. I have a netbook with XP (I usually boot into Chrome), a couple of Vista machines, a Windows 7 machine, but when I am happy I am sitting on an Ubuntu 10.10 machine at my favorite desk.