did you pay for your current OS?

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Davegod

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: Davegod
"came with pc" option would be interesting aswell imo.

ps. piracy isnt "theft", it's "infringement".

Technicalities, technicalities........

Not a rationalisation nor a technicality, its a clear distinction, distinction........

Erm and what am I going to get caught for and fined $100,000?

I agree. It is a pretty word for being a deuche-bag, numbnuts, dick smoking, like stealing candy from a baby, how much can I make a year stealing from old people, I don't give a damn if the money someone makes off of the work they are doing is feeding his children when I can get this for free, half witted, dirt bag that can't be bothered to think about anyone but himself. But go ahead and be an armchair lawyer and call it what you want. 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

Not a rationalisation nor a technicality, its a clear distinction, distinction........

But it's also semantics, the end result is the same. You are actively using something that you don't legally have a license for.

 

[butch84]

nope, got my copy of winxp pro free at the microsoft training

 

[nbarb99]

I have Win XP Home, and I didn't pay for it. Someone gave me (no joke!) a valid retail copy of Windows XP (product code and everything) so it's completely legit.

I really wish MS would lighten up about the whole product activation thing though 🙁

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: nbarb99
I have Win XP Home, and I didn't pay for it. Someone gave me (no joke!) a valid retail copy of Windows XP (product code and everything) so it's completely legit.

I really wish MS would lighten up about the whole product activation thing though 🙁

If assholes stopped pirating software, silly restictions like that wouldn't have to be created.

 

[EeyoreX]

I have Win XP Home, and I didn't pay for it. Someone gave me (no joke!) a valid retail copy of Windows XP (product code and everything) so it's completely legit.

I really wish MS would lighten up about the whole product activation thing though 🙁

If assholes stopped pirating software, silly restictions like that wouldn't have to be created.

Agreed. Not to mention, in my experience, MS has been pretty "light" about activations. I have had to call a couple times to activate Windows XP (I had serious trouble with some hardware, mostly a rash of bad motherboards and hard drives). When I needed to activate Windows, and I needed to call it took about 2 minutes. No problems. Obviously that means I bought my OS. Also, if you think Microsoft is to blame for product activation, for one, many companies did it before MS did, they were the first huge company to do it. Also, if you want some people to blame, look through this thread and blame the ones that admit to pirating. They are part of the reason Microsoft and other companies have to do this. It doesn't bother me, but that's because I pay for my software, so I have no reason to be bothered and nothing to hide.

\Dan

 

[SpeedFreak03]

I could go on and on. One more thing I wanted to say was about speed. Even though im using KDE on this dog of a system (AMD K6-2 400, 192MB PC100 ram), it definetly is much faster than a fresh install on Windows 2000 Pro. But anyway, WineX is that program for using windows programs with linux, right? I haven't tried that yet. I think im gonna check it out now, actually! BTW, thanks for the compliments.

No don't stop now! That's a very convincing testimonial. I agree with eveything that you said, but have you tried winex (full not cvs) yet

EDIT: fixed formatting

 

[Davegod]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Davegod
Not a rationalisation nor a technicality, its a clear distinction, distinction........

Erm and what am I going to get caught for and fined $100,000?

I agree. It is a pretty word for being a deuche-bag, numbnuts, dick smoking, like stealing candy from a baby, how much can I make a year stealing from old people, I don't give a damn if the money someone makes off of the work they are doing is feeding his children when I can get this for free, half witted, dirt bag that can't be bothered to think about anyone but himself. But go ahead and be an armchair lawyer and call it what you want. 🙂

Maybe if you (and the several others) paid attention you might have considered the possibility I am actually running a legit OS? I hinted about it in both my posts here, yet I never even implied I was running warez, but you assumption is...

 

[macwinlin]

Yes, paid for my copy of Windows XP Professional and Slackware Linux 9.0 (would have downloaded it for free, but I don't have access to broadband yet).

 

[DeRusto]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

both win2k and winxp were free through school

You should ask to see the license for them, a lot of the time the license is only valid while you're in school so you'll have to buy new licenses when you graduate.

as a matter of fact they are free for me to use for the duration of my life so long as i actually graduate 😛

edit: this nice deal only holds true for computer science majors seeing as part of our tuition goes to purchasing bulk liscences

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Davegod

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Davegod
Not a rationalisation nor a technicality, its a clear distinction, distinction........

Erm and what am I going to get caught for and fined $100,000?

I agree. It is a pretty word for being a deuche-bag, numbnuts, dick smoking, like stealing candy from a baby, how much can I make a year stealing from old people, I don't give a damn if the money someone makes off of the work they are doing is feeding his children when I can get this for free, half witted, dirt bag that can't be bothered to think about anyone but himself. But go ahead and be an armchair lawyer and call it what you want. 🙂

Maybe if you (and the several others) paid attention you might have considered the possibility I am actually running a legit OS? I hinted about it in both my posts here, yet I never even implied I was running warez, but you assumption is...

As you can see from my post, if you read it again, I assumed nothing. I was commenting on the distinction between theft and infringement, not on your proclamation of using a legit OS. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[chsh1ca]

Win98SE - Paid for because I bloody well had to (got it for $10 above part cost on my machine at the time).
Linux Slackare 8.1 - Didn't pay for it.

I can't see myself paying for (or using) a newer version of Windows. I've tried XP, it seems stable enough. I use Win2K at work, but what's right at the office isn't necessarily right at home.

 

[ojai00]

Paid for 1 copy of Windows XP Pro, got another one free, and got a copy of Windows XP Home with a laptop that I got off eGay. All legit! Can't say the same about some of the other programs on my computer though...😱

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
Your poll should include a paid option for linux. If I use any OS to do actual work, I pay for it. Thus, purchased copies of RH 7.3-9, Slackware 4-9, Windows 98/XP, OpenBSD. I guess I haven't paid for Debian, now I'm feeling guilty...

it doesn't include one because you are in the minority. *nix users seem to think that open source coders eat and drink air, and also pay for their rent/bills/etc with air. it's free afterall! that makes it better than windows! why should i have to pay!!!

hehe, i paid for my copies of xp home and win2k, and i even bought a boxed copy of redhat when i was running it. i do have a bootlegged copy of win98 around here somewhere, but it's not running on any machines.

 

[Nothinman]

it doesn't include one because you are in the minority. *nix users seem to think that open source coders eat and drink air, and also pay for their rent/bills/etc with air. it's free afterall! that makes it better than windows! why should i have to pay!!!

And your generalizations are stupid, although the fact that it's Open Source does make it better than Windows not the fact that it's free. But I've donated money to causes I feel are worth it an frankly I feel most Open Source software is worth a lot more than most closed source software.

 

[chsh1ca]

Originally posted by: fisher

it doesn't include one because you are in the minority. *nix users seem to think that open source coders eat and drink air, and also pay for their rent/bills/etc with air. it's free afterall! that makes it better than windows! why should i have to pay!!!

I know more people who buy and pay for the boxed OSes after they've used it for a while and found a business purpose for it than I do people who don't pay for them at all. What makes open source code better than windows is two things: more quality control (your users are able to patch and submit patches to you), and you have the source, so if you need to fix something it can be done -- if you know what you are doing. That puts the majority of *nix using developers at an advantage since they can simply modify the source as needed and compile, while with closed-source software, everyone has to wait (and hope) for patches from the vendor.

Of the two models, open-sourced development has proven to be far faster at producing patches. Those same patches appear to be of higher quality than those produced by many closed-source development houses. You should only have to patch things once to fix a particular vulnerability.

I've never seen people say "why should i have to pay", principally because they don't, that's the point. You can if you want to. It's that simple. Just like it is the developer's choice to open up the source for an app he or she has written.

What is so amusing about your post is that you indicate that you speak for open source devs and that you make a sweeping wholly untrue generalization. It sounds to me like either you don't get the idea of opening up the source, or you don't get that most of the OS devs out there are either in college or employed, and write code as a hobby.

 

[Smilin]

My last two OS's (XP & 2k) have been purchased from my school for $5 per CD.

 

[Mist]

No. Never have, never will.

Michael.

 

[zbalat]

I pay for everything I use. OSes, games, music EVERYTHING.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
Your poll should include a paid option for linux. If I use any OS to do actual work, I pay for it. Thus, purchased copies of RH 7.3-9, Slackware 4-9, Windows 98/XP, OpenBSD. I guess I haven't paid for Debian, now I'm feeling guilty...

it doesn't include one because you are in the minority. *nix users seem to think that open source coders eat and drink air, and also pay for their rent/bills/etc with air. it's free afterall! that makes it better than windows! why should i have to pay!!!

hehe, i paid for my copies of xp home and win2k, and i even bought a boxed copy of redhat when i was running it. i do have a bootlegged copy of win98 around here somewhere, but it's not running on any machines.

If they did not want to release it for free they would not have.

 

[zbalat]

Originally posted by: Mist
No. Never have, never will.

Michael.

Michael, people like you piss me off. You are a thief plain and simple.

Did you pay for the hardware in your rig that you are to stupid to properly link to? If you did pay for it, why? Why not just go steal it from someone? Stealing is stealing regardless of how easy the theft is. If jackasses like you didn't steal every bit of software that they use everyone could afford to buy it.

You and all people like you are fvcking losers.

 

[MiExStacY]

school give good discount for mine

 

[Cadaver]

Yup, I paid.
Paid $12 to my University for an unlimited-install WinXP Pro corporate.

 

[Nothinman]

school give good discount for mine

Yup, I paid.
Paid $12 to my University for an unlimited-install WinXP Pro corporate.

As I said earlier, and many times before, check the license you got from your school because a lot of them become void once you graduate.

 

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

school give good discount for mine

Yup, I paid. Paid $12 to my University for an unlimited-install WinXP Pro corporate.

As I said earlier, and many times before, check the license you got from your school because a lot of them become void once you graduate.

I'm faculty. The license becomes void should I leave my position at the university, however I don't plan on doing so any time soon.