| From: | Enrique R. Mecklenburg Serkovic |
| Date: | 10 Apr 2001 at 20:50:12 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Back from St. Louis! |
Wil Haslup escribió:
> Hi Richard
>
> On 10-Apr-01, you wrote:
>
> > Hello Bill
>
> > On 09-Apr-01, Bill Eaves wrote:
> >
> >>>> A poor argument.
> >>
> >>> Really? I think your view would different if you were a developer
> >>> trying to earn a living.
>
> >> Please quote in context.
>
> >> You omitted the main part of my mail which stated that most Windoze
> >> users don't py for any of their software !
>
> > Most? You know this for a fact? Sure there's piracy on Windows as
> > well as every other platform, but please don't make such a vast
> > generalisation as "most". If that was the case then there'd be as
> > much commercial software available for the PC as there is for the
> > Amiga. This clearly isn't the case.
>
> When Bill Gates makes this arguement and is intending to release the
> next version of his OS so that it calls MS and checks in it seems to
> me that it is a fair statement. The arguement that personal piracy on
> the PC platform is prevelant has been the norm for some time.
>
I agree. Piracy has been the way users could have a computer with lots of
programs here, for personal use mostly but also in universities and
schools. But right now Linux has got quiet a lot a users in Perú and is
the OS towards the universities are focusing their attention, for its
computers and for teaching it. Maybe a better option would be doing a
version for it, where comun users didn't feel comfortable with the
different guis and differente ways of doing things. A powerful and easy to
use program like Dopus could make the difference in Linux