Almost the same as here in Malaysia. I'm not sure if the cost of the call is split or not, though. We get 1 POP3/Webmail account, and 10MB webspace, with no ads.
I agree. Here in Malaysia, we've had free dialup Internet (we just pay for the cost of the phone call) for many years now, about 6 or 7 years. The most prominent, and only currently existing one being TimeNet.
Once I had the bad luck of downloading College Linux, only to find, that at the very last second (literally), the download got cancelled "due to lack of hard drive space". I was using my cousin's computer running Win XP and on broadband at the time. I had to redownload the whole thing again.
Yeah, I'm in Malaysia,in Kuala Lumpur. I agree with you fully. It is so easy to find MS OS cds here, but it is almost impossible to find Linux distributions that aren't one or two versions behind the current one. I have to resort to downloading my OS from linuxiso.org. It would be ever so much easier for us if these pirates would distribute Linux OS CDs (that are normally available for free online), that MS CDs.
Nobody really buys them. I asked a shop owner just yesterday whether anyone actually buys the Longhorn CDs. He replied that they haven't sold even one copy, because apparently, no one "has heard of it and so they don't want to try".
And no, I did NOT buy it. I use Linux.
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Almost the same as here in Malaysia. I'm not sure if the cost of the call is split or not, though. We get 1 POP3/Webmail account, and 10MB webspace, with no ads.
I agree. Here in Malaysia, we've had free dialup Internet (we just pay for the cost of the phone call) for many years now, about 6 or 7 years. The most prominent, and only currently existing one being TimeNet.
What rubbish!!! Piracy of SOFTWARE has nothing to do with HARDWARE!!! Wake up MS!!!
Once I had the bad luck of downloading College Linux, only to find, that at the very last second (literally), the download got cancelled "due to lack of hard drive space". I was using my cousin's computer running Win XP and on broadband at the time. I had to redownload the whole thing again.
Yeah, I'm in Malaysia,in Kuala Lumpur. I agree with you fully. It is so easy to find MS OS cds here, but it is almost impossible to find Linux distributions that aren't one or two versions behind the current one. I have to resort to downloading my OS from linuxiso.org. It would be ever so much easier for us if these pirates would distribute Linux OS CDs (that are normally available for free online), that MS CDs.
Nobody really buys them. I asked a shop owner just yesterday whether anyone actually buys the Longhorn CDs. He replied that they haven't sold even one copy, because apparently, no one "has heard of it and so they don't want to try". And no, I did NOT buy it. I use Linux.