Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:07:37 +0300 > Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:44:18 +0300 > > > Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > An interesting trend is that some small businesses who can't > > > > afford to run pirated software, but also don't want/can't > > > > afford to pay for MS Office are using OpenOffice. > > > > > > Only those who "can't afford to run pirated software"? Are there > > > none who respect the legal or moral rights of software producers? > > > > Willingly? When the average income is ~200 EUR/month and some > > software suite costs ~700EUR, moral considerations come second. The > > only questions is if you are likely to have a visit from the BSA or > > not! > > Are you arguing that poverty justifies stealing? No I'm not, I was just telling what happens in real life. For my part I'm not running Windows any more (though my laptop does have a sticker for XP Professional) and recommend FLOSS to anyone who wants to listen. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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