[plug] MS driving freeloaders to Linux?

[Chris Watt]

There's always a workaround to these things within hours or days of
their launch.  They're really only offering a few more challengers to
'pirates' and we all know a good challenge is a bit of fun when it's
in a field you enjoy.





On 7/31/05, Quintin Lette <qlette at gmail.com> wrote:
> ><snip> 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? </snip>
> 
> Ok it doesn't run on x86 hardware (yet!) so there is a hardware cost,
> but if they are already using pirate copies of windows do you think
> they wont use pirate copies of Mac OS? OSX has a lot less security
> features (ie you have the media you can install it) than Windows. So I
> don't see this being too far fetched.
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