I warez all my stuff, they don't see a nickle anyway. Stuff is too much to pay for, and too needed to live without, so when that happens, poor people steal. It's been going on for thousands of years.
There's more cost to using M$ software than just the thousands of nickels many pay them. You warez it because it's "needed." Why, when there are open alternatives (to a great degree)? It's probably what's called "network effects" -- you need what everyone else is using to be able to share stuff with them (and also to maintain easily transferrable skills). But your use of M$ stuff propagates this dependency.
I don't say this accusingly at all. I'm not free myself, due to the contacts/environment I have. It's just something to be aware of so that you consider it when an opportunity comes to break free. And one can keep trying to influence the decisions of those around them -- to lay out the entirety of their options, and the full consequences of their choices, of which they probably aren't aware.
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There's more cost to using M$ software than just the thousands of nickels many pay them. You warez it because it's "needed." Why, when there are open alternatives (to a great degree)? It's probably what's called "network effects" -- you need what everyone else is using to be able to share stuff with them (and also to maintain easily transferrable skills). But your use of M$ stuff propagates this dependency.
I don't say this accusingly at all. I'm not free myself, due to the contacts/environment I have. It's just something to be aware of so that you consider it when an opportunity comes to break free. And one can keep trying to influence the decisions of those around them -- to lay out the entirety of their options, and the full consequences of their choices, of which they probably aren't aware.
I refute thee thus: They did indeed just go after slashdot over a restrictive license issue.