On Tuesday 27 Mar 2007 12:00:25 jtd wrote:
My friend never had to pay a single paisa for any of those problems. And no, he didn't use any pirated versions.
And who talked about me being paid for maintaining Linux boxen? You just conjured that up out of the thin air! And what policeman?
Heck it's not u as in Mrugesh. It's u as in somebody who provides a service - including the self provider - you have to account for the resources expended on a thorughly useless activity.
Oops. Sorry.
Your friend (God bless him) is an honorable exception in using licenced software.
Hehehe, he did it because of the fear of being `caught', but yeah, he did buy the licenses.
The vast majority of cyber cafes dont care. I have visited a hughe number of them right across the country. Their cost is the cost of a cd and with the introduction of registers - where every kid worth his mouse writes a fake name and address - the bribe to the local cop who flies by for inkspection. With the cops added responsibility of discovering piracy the cost of chaipani might go up.
Yup.
And seriously, if you're going to offer a virus free system in exchange for losing customers, you've lost already. I don't understand why there is this almighty urge to get everyone to switch to FOSS.
There isn't. Which is my point in the case of cybercafes. Stop wasting your time trying to find justification of any kind to make the cybercafe switch. Unless you drag them all to court and fine them the cost + 150% of all software on the disk nothing's going to change.
Yeah. The association making it compulsory for the cyber cafe owners to buy licenses to software will facilitate FOSS' entry greatly.
P.S. If you do succeed with this (and contrary to what you might believe by now, I don't have a problem with Linux getting into cyber cafes), since freedom matters so much to you, use one of the absolutely free distros mentioned on the GNU site.
He he. We are both shouting about the same thing. Wrong medicine for the wrong people. Cyberbhai's wanna make a living and like all other bhai's they dont care at whose expense.
LOL, we actually agree for once.
Cheers.