"PencilState" <> wrote in message
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> "Alias" <> wrote in message
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>> STAN STARINSKI wrote:
>>> Thanks for that Blog exaplining how to clean-install Upgrade medi aon a
>>> virgin machine.
>>> But one person there made a typical "greedy corporation" stupid remark
>>> there.
>>>
>>> He says Apple is not torturing customers with regsitry, hacks, etc in
>>> order to run a clean Upgrade install + it ships Recovery media with
>>> every Mac.
>>> This person fails to udnerstand a fundamental fact:
>>>
>>> Software is Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominating business, all their
>>> mice, keyboards, and X-Box don't come close.
>>> Microsoft is making your life harder only due to these pirates who
>>> damage MS's main business, while Apple is more tolerant BECAUSE HARDWARE
>>> IS APPLE'S MAIN BUSINESS, WAKE UP ****!
>>>
>>> An Operating System for Apple is an accessory to help sell macs, while
>>> Operating System for Microsoft is the main revenue source, OK?
>>> Plus Apple makes portables (smartphones, music devices, etc).
>>>
>>> It's easier to protect hardware, than software against piracy, in fact
>>> piracy cannot be prevented in a free society.
>>> If this was totalitarian regime we could be shooting people for stealing
>>> government software, but then that software would likely to be 2nd sort
>>> anyway as totaliarism stiffens free enterprise,
>>>
>>> Anyways you get my point.
>>> You have accept MS's anti-piracy efforts as justified.
>>> Else hordes of highly-paid Software Engineers would lose their incomes,
>>> stop spending, and YOU as a whole economy will suffer.
>>> Plus MS projects American might to the rest of the world, dont play with
>>> it. Lots of people will lose their jobs if you hurt MS.
>>
>> I doubt Vista was pirated much.
>>
>> "If they are going to steal software, I want them to steal mine!"
>>
>> - Bill Gates
>>
>> He sure got his wish.
>>
>
> Yet linux, for free, no one wants to steal, use, or spit on.
> Wonder why?
>
> I bet linux sucks.
> Big Time
>
>
I did find a good use for the Ubuntu CD's. I put them in the back yard and
taught the dog to **** on them. Every few days we pick up the CD's. Now if
only I had Alias' address!
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