[plug] MS driving freeloaders to Linux?

[Richard Meyer]

I was reading
http://zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Is_Microsoft_driving_freeloaders_to_Linux_/0,2000061733,39204740,00.htm this by Iain Ferguson, and I suspect he doesn't get what Linux/FOSS is about, at all.

He is talking about MS tightening up on downloads from their sites so
that non-legit "customers" can't download anything except security
fixes.Amongst other things he says "Already some commentators are saying
such a program may anger some people who are used to using illicit
copies of Windows XP for free and push them to consider switching to
Linux or Mac OS X." - now, to me this is rather strange, why would
someone who won't pay MS for their crappy OS, go and pay the prices that
Apple demand?

Anyway, read it, and comment - or don't  ;-)
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