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voidmain:
As much as I am against warez, you can not count every warez copy of a game a "loss". What percentage of those people with a warez copy would have actually bought a copy if they couldn't get a warez copy? My guess is a very small percentage. How many people would buy M$ Office if they couldn't get a warez copy? My guess is there would be a hell of a lot more people using OpenOffice or buying StarOffice.
This is why I do not like warez. It keeps the monopolies thriving instead of pumping up the numbers of alternatives. As long as people keep passing warez around this will continue to be the case. That's why I believe M$ is shooting themselves in the foot with the SBA crap. I think that was a stupid move on their part that will cause people to look to alternatives rather than scare them into paying for their crappy software.
beltorak0:
thier mistake was upping the price and prosecuting warezers too soon. They're following standard crack-dealer merketing tho: get em hooked, then up the price.
-t.
Bazoukas:
I sad it but I will said it again.
Say what ever the hell you want guys in the Forum, as long as we dont put this Web Site intro Trouble.
Dipshits that work for MS are looking for a good excuse to give a bad rep to the Open SOurce community.
They want to stick the word Ware and Open Source, together. Lets dont give them the ground to dance please.
My 2 retarded cents.
Chooco:
i think warez is only acceptable when the program is forced on you such as the case of you NEEDING Windows in order to play games like MOH, Half-Life, Diablo2, Quake and many other hit games. i admit that i have some programs for free but it sort of makes me feel better knowing that i would not have bought it if i had to pay for it such as paying 20 bucks for a program that monitors how much bandwidth i use. it's sort of like looking at a porsche 911 when you work at McDonalds. the porsche would be nice to have but if you had to pay money for it, you would not buy it.
voidmain:
But in this case, the Porsche is free. And no one is forcing you to play those M$ specific games. Quake* runs just fine in Linux.
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