In France, you can't even wear a small catholic cross around your neck to a public school, unless it's well hidden under your shirt.
It is a good thing, really. First, a religious symbol isn't speech. Second, religion is a private thing of anyone. No reason to demonstratively exibit it to everyone. And third, a truly secular country doesn't endorce a particular religion. France seems to be a truly secular country to me.
The whole point of living in a free country is that I can do whatever the fuck I want as long as I don't mess with other people's right to do whatever the fuck they want. Regardless of how good it seems to you, the fact is that the government is now telling people how they're allowed to dress. Such an egregious infringement on personal freedom is horrifying to me.
Think all you want about how immaterial things should be free, but if all information somehow had to be free then you wouldn't have anymore professional software around, you'd be stuck with crap like GIMP or Blender and would never again see anything like Photoshop or 3DS Max.
Last I checked, AVG and Avast were better than Norton and MacAfee. As in way way way better.
Actually, I do, but not as IT, so I (fortunately) am not put in these kinds of positions. (Although as an engineer, if I screw up, people can die).
I can totally sympathize with not wanting to be in a liable position. What rubbed me the wrong way was the aura of moral superiority I was picking up. The OP seemed to be looking for problems rather than having them come to him. It's one thing if your entire office suite is pirated, but feeling upset that your boss doesn't want to pay for WinZip? Seriously?
What is so awesome about MS staging a GPL violation that "forces" them to release the source code of their product? This will only feed the "GPL is cancer" mindset.
Obviously, they intentionally inserted GPL code so that they would be embarrassed, have to apologize, and release source code that they think is worth a lot of money! Wait, what?
Stop being a sanctimonious bitch about it.
If you make a personal decision not to pirate, that's cool. Running around trying to be everyone else's conscience, not so much.
This statement just shows that you don't understand supply and demand. The nature of supply is that sellers produce the amount that maximizes their profit. For Middle Eastern countries, this means producing at less than full capacity.
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It is a good thing, really. First, a religious symbol isn't speech. Second, religion is a private thing of anyone. No reason to demonstratively exibit it to everyone. And third, a truly secular country doesn't endorce a particular religion. France seems to be a truly secular country to me.
The whole point of living in a free country is that I can do whatever the fuck I want as long as I don't mess with other people's right to do whatever the fuck they want. Regardless of how good it seems to you, the fact is that the government is now telling people how they're allowed to dress. Such an egregious infringement on personal freedom is horrifying to me.
many seem to assign almost religious overtones to the US Constitution, like it was handed down to them from the hands of Jehovah himself.
They didn't teach you that in school? You poor uneducated bastard!
Think all you want about how immaterial things should be free, but if all information somehow had to be free then you wouldn't have anymore professional software around, you'd be stuck with crap like GIMP or Blender and would never again see anything like Photoshop or 3DS Max.
Last I checked, AVG and Avast were better than Norton and MacAfee. As in way way way better.
Actually, I do, but not as IT, so I (fortunately) am not put in these kinds of positions. (Although as an engineer, if I screw up, people can die).
I can totally sympathize with not wanting to be in a liable position. What rubbed me the wrong way was the aura of moral superiority I was picking up. The OP seemed to be looking for problems rather than having them come to him. It's one thing if your entire office suite is pirated, but feeling upset that your boss doesn't want to pay for WinZip? Seriously?
What is so awesome about MS staging a GPL violation that "forces" them to release the source code of their product? This will only feed the "GPL is cancer" mindset.
Obviously, they intentionally inserted GPL code so that they would be embarrassed, have to apologize, and release source code that they think is worth a lot of money! Wait, what?
Your post only gets more delusional from there.
Stop being a sanctimonious bitch about it. If you make a personal decision not to pirate, that's cool. Running around trying to be everyone else's conscience, not so much.
A friend of mine wrote a program ...
When I spoke to his boss about this
Where I'm from, being someone's "friend" means having their back...like, you know, not trying to get them fired.
Windows 7 is still clunky, slow, and unstable.
Citation needed. I use Windows 7 and it's certainly not one of those.
Which one of them is it not?
It's all supply and demand
It's really not.
This statement just shows that you don't understand supply and demand. The nature of supply is that sellers produce the amount that maximizes their profit. For Middle Eastern countries, this means producing at less than full capacity.
And yet we can't shake the feeling that it's not ok.
I can. The feeling that someone else should act in your self interest instead of theirs is known as "entitlement."
People are going to use that phrase wrong and no amount of education will help this.
People are going to use that word incorrectly and no amount of education will help this.