[lug] M$ does it again...down under

[Riggs, Rob]

The friggin' charity is blatantly pirating Microsoft's OSes. They've got a
number of free OS choices, and instead of using one of those they are
choosing to pirate Windows. I've got no sympathy for them. This is a good
way to get a Microsoft tax institutionalized. Their argument is essentially,
"we've already paid the Microsoft tax on this box, your honor". That's not
the way copyright law works folks. If you lose your copy of "The Cat in the
Hat", you don't have the right to go down to the book store and help
yourself to another book. You don't even have the right to go to the library
and photocopy theirs.
 
Copyrights are important to the Linux community. Don't think that a charity
subverting Microsoft's copyrights helps us at all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Taz [mailto:feenix at ticnet.com]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:25 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] M$ does it again...down under


surprise, surprise, surprise!!!  No, not really  from M$!  How pathetic can
they get?!?!?!? 
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2800646,00.html?chkpt=
hud00224dp
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2800646,00.html?chkpt
=hud00224dp> 
  

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