Best Abuse of User: Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse
also qualifies for the Iron Chef competition. Or am I alone in thinking that Greasy Mouse sounds like some sort of England variant on Chinese/Indian cookery? *grin* (I can't wait to see this entry. I love the Abuse of User programs...)
Unfortunately, as this article indicates, the acceptance of YourFavoriteOpen-Source kernel and associatedopen-sourceprojects may be limited by the convinent sale of pirated Microsoft products. (A side note: If this isn't a reason to cheer on the tightening of Microsoft product controls and the like - at least to some degree - I don't know what is.)
There is certainly a subset of users using Linux, developing interesting applications, and whatnot, but they are reportedly a sad minority.
On the other hand, hope can be found in the relative poverty of respectable organizations in China - they can't really afford Microsoft software, and are therefore more likely to look at free software for open, legitimate purposes.
They all send "Me Too" messages on USENET, which are then filtered by China's restrictive censorship laws to blank messages, and then filtered by everyone else's anti-spam measures.
Certainly, people in general - not just students - are getting smarter about not admitting to using warez. However, it's been my experience and observation that the amount of warez use in the context of the school experience - that is, for programs and OSes that you may use as a professional student - has dropped signifigantly. I wouldn't care to be graded on my speculation, but it seems to me that the increasing avaliability of cheap academic-to-professional license upgrades may have something to do with that...
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Best Abuse of User: Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse
also qualifies for the Iron Chef competition. Or am I alone in thinking that Greasy Mouse sounds like some sort of England variant on Chinese/Indian cookery? *grin* (I can't wait to see this entry. I love the Abuse of User programs...)
There is certainly a subset of users using Linux, developing interesting applications, and whatnot, but they are reportedly a sad minority.
On the other hand, hope can be found in the relative poverty of respectable organizations in China - they can't really afford Microsoft software, and are therefore more likely to look at free software for open, legitimate purposes.
On the gripping hand...But I ramble.
They all send "Me Too" messages on USENET, which are then filtered by China's restrictive censorship laws to blank messages, and then filtered by everyone else's anti-spam measures.
I'd compare it to .NET, but then I'd just be parroting you. *ahem*
Certainly, people in general - not just students - are getting smarter about not admitting to using warez. However, it's been my experience and observation that the amount of warez use in the context of the school experience - that is, for programs and OSes that you may use as a professional student - has dropped signifigantly. I wouldn't care to be graded on my speculation, but it seems to me that the increasing avaliability of cheap academic-to-professional license upgrades may have something to do with that...