Top software pirates revealed by BSA study

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I love Linux and use it instead because its better than Microsoft for the places I use it or Open Source products like Libreoffice because I dont have 2K to spend on Microsoft Office not because of the reasons you mention, to do so would be childish. ...

Since MS software has sort of become the norm in businesses, most students etc. will spend money on acquiring software they want to become accustomed to and hence they aren't exposed to alternative software. If only businesses where aware that they could easily build their whole infrastructure on FOSS that is in my opinion better in some instances than the proprietary counterpart.

The biggest motivational point to me is Linux is scalable, normally the default out of the box configuration is sufficient, but a sysadmin can control every aspect of the system, whereas MS systems enforce "best use policies" that does not always apply to all business entities. Not to mention forking out thousands for CAL's.

Incidentally our company is after being in business for 30 years and running MS for 20 years, slowly undergoing a paradigm shift to phase out MS as far as possible.

 

[axelblue]

I love Linux and use it instead because its better than Microsoft for the places I use it or Open Source products like Libreoffice because I dont have 2K to spend on Microsoft Office not because of the reasons you mention, to do so would be childish.

Complaining that Microsoft is bad because they included IE, then install a OS that not only includes a browser but also a host of other software like Office, graphic utils like Gimp is kind of two faced, by your argument Linux should also only include the OS and nothing else. Besides no one held a gun next to people's head saying the must use Microsoft and nothing else. You are free to install Opera, Firefox, Chrome and so on.

If you understand web standards you will see the reason why microsoft where forced to unbundle IE was because the other engines where web standard compliant. IE where not, and websites where coded to give IE a good view, breaking in other browsers. Thus, windows never followed normal standards and IE became a standard on its own. Giving other browsers a hard time to be competitive in a fair way on the internet. Even if FF or opera marketed their browsers well, sites would not display correct because it was coded for IE. Windows thus used IE as a monopoly on the internet. The new IE engines are a lot more standard compliant though.

 

[DarthCat]

I love Linux and use it instead because its better than Microsoft for the places I use it or Open Source products like Libreoffice because I dont have 2K to spend on Microsoft Office not because of the reasons you mention, to do so would be childish.

Complaining that Microsoft is bad because they included IE, then install a OS that not only includes a browser but also a host of other software like Office, graphic utils like Gimp is kind of two faced, by your argument Linux should also only include the OS and nothing else. Besides no one held a gun next to people's head saying the must use Microsoft and nothing else. You are free to install Opera, Firefox, Chrome and so on.

And some people complain about size of windows while some linux version also install big

 

[rambo919]

All paths of logic aside, people are NOT all the same. Some pirate to be spiteful, some pirate because they love the thrill of doing something illegal even if it doesn't actually matter to anyone, some pirate to give the corporates the finger, some pirate because they just damn well want to and/or can, some pirate because its cheaper, some pirate because that's the ONLY route available to them.

At the end of the day society will NEVER truely leave the bartering mentality behind, people will pay what they believe the product is worth and forcing higher prices a lot only increases the likelyhood of some form black market behaviour. Another obvious thing is that some people like being able to be in complete control of their purchases, I for example refuse to even use anything not directly internet related that somehow requires internet. People are more stubborn than big business remembers it seems.

On another related yet random thought track, think of how legal marjuana is and how widespread it is....no one actually gives a rat's ass about such laws and no authority will ever make anyone care about anything simply by creating more legislation.