Okay I know this sounds like a bad comparison BUT if somebody would copy Mona Lisa and sell the copies he would have FBI after him but if somebody copies Metallica's entire collection and distributes it through napster he is a hero? I can understand why bands want to distribute their music when they are not AS well known as Metallica to get their 'image' out. But imagine this you work two years coding something (to but food on the table) and then some college kid distributes your code "WITHOUT your knowledge" through the internet, would you get pissed???
I would like to comment on that Linux on the Desktop part. It's true that new Linux users most likely have trouble when starting to use Linux, mainly because these two system work quite diffently from each other. I have experience from Windows since the 3.0 days and when I first booted it up it seemed hard/complicated to use but now after several versions of it I find it simple to use (mostly because I have discovered the different ways to do things in it, which are total chinese to my wife). But around a month ago I started seriously using Linux and I must admid that using it (not installing it) was kind of shaky at first but after a while I got comfortable with it and now I wouldn't change back. Still my wife uses the 'other' computer that has Windows installed on it just because she found Linux (KDE) confusing and new and doesn't have the 'technical hunger' to find things out, so she decided to stay on the safe and 'sound' road of Windows. Things might be different if Linux would have been what it is now when she started taking her first steps with computers.
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Okay I know this sounds like a bad comparison BUT if somebody would copy Mona Lisa and sell the copies he would have FBI after him but if somebody copies Metallica's entire collection and distributes it through napster he is a hero? I can understand why bands want to distribute their music when they are not AS well known as Metallica to get their 'image' out. But imagine this you work two years coding something (to but food on the table) and then some college kid distributes your code "WITHOUT your knowledge" through the internet, would you get pissed???
Heck..I was just about to order SUSE and now I get Quake III with it! Only thing...has anybody tried it with TNT GL drivers?
I would like to comment on that Linux on the Desktop part. It's true that new Linux users most likely have trouble when starting to use Linux, mainly because these two system work quite diffently from each other. I have experience from Windows since the 3.0 days and when I first booted it up it seemed hard/complicated to use but now after several versions of it I find it simple to use (mostly because I have discovered the different ways to do things in it, which are total chinese to my wife). But around a month ago I started seriously using Linux and I must admid that using it (not installing it) was kind of shaky at first but after a while I got comfortable with it and now I wouldn't change back. Still my wife uses the 'other' computer that has Windows installed on it just because she found Linux (KDE) confusing and new and doesn't have the 'technical hunger' to find things out, so she decided to stay on the safe and 'sound' road of Windows. Things might be different if Linux would have been what it is now when she started taking her first steps with computers.