Marcelo A. Ortiz

Member since: Dec 6th, 2007

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Does software piracy hurt the open source community? (Download Squad)

Jul 30th 2008 11:31AM I do believe Software piracy hurts the Open Source movement... Here in Chile, where I live, just a few people pay attention to Linux as a desktop OS, because Windows is "free" (you know, installed by a friend who has a pirated copy)... The same goes for the other software, like Adobe...
I think many of those people would try open source alternatives if they had to pay the real prices to get the software.
Nonetheless, software piracy is as old as software itself... So, the open source movement will have to make much better software to be able to compete with the "free" pirated software. Example: MySQL, Firefox, etc.

IMHO,
drunkenpoet

Microsoft to begin tests of Windows XP on the OLPC in January (Download Squad)

Dec 6th 2007 2:19PM Just a small remark:
When you write "1GB of memory, while Windows requires at least 2GB", did you mean "1 GB of hard disk space (or storage), while Windows requires at least 2GB"?