You deal with circumventing the duty (being monitored) by running wine, cygwin, vmware and the like.
That's not the point.
There is a confinement rule, and the question is: is it fair?
He claims costs (buy windows) and being punished to use windows.
The cost argument isn't changed by running wine, cygwin or vmware.
And he might not be interested in using a technique, which brings him straigt back to jail, if he is observed to circumvent the monitoring software.
Those advices aren't helpful - they just show, that all you experts know vmware, wine and cygwin.
Congratulation.
So is here a skandal of unfairnes?
Do you expect judges to be informed about linux, and that you can't simply run a monitoring software written for MS-Xme2kista on a linux system?
How does a judge work?
Someone suggests running a monitoring software, the judges agrees - amen.
Btw.: slashdot doesn't report, but here http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored -by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/ you see, he was convicted for "uploading 'Star Wars: Episode III' onto the internet hours before the theatrical release".
Not the common fair-use dvd-ripper, or sometimes-torrent-user.
Of course I would prefer 5 months in jail with ubuntu instead of 5 months in the MS-jail.
But I guess a equivalent Linux-monitoring-software would have been accepted by the judge.
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You deal with circumventing the duty (being monitored) by running wine, cygwin, vmware and the like. That's not the point. There is a confinement rule, and the question is: is it fair? He claims costs (buy windows) and being punished to use windows. The cost argument isn't changed by running wine, cygwin or vmware. And he might not be interested in using a technique, which brings him straigt back to jail, if he is observed to circumvent the monitoring software. Those advices aren't helpful - they just show, that all you experts know vmware, wine and cygwin. Congratulation. So is here a skandal of unfairnes? Do you expect judges to be informed about linux, and that you can't simply run a monitoring software written for MS-Xme2kista on a linux system? How does a judge work? Someone suggests running a monitoring software, the judges agrees - amen. Btw.: slashdot doesn't report, but here http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored -by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/ you see, he was convicted for "uploading 'Star Wars: Episode III' onto the internet hours before the theatrical release".
Not the common fair-use dvd-ripper, or sometimes-torrent-user.
Of course I would prefer 5 months in jail with ubuntu instead of 5 months in the MS-jail.
But I guess a equivalent Linux-monitoring-software would have been accepted by the judge.