Re: Software pirates are destroying Linux !!!!!

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From: RISC Amiga
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:58

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Dan Simper wrote:
> Everyone is stealing the software now, so nobody can earn $$$ with it
> ! Linux is DOOMED !

True, software companies don't dare to publish commercial software
under Linux, because they fear it would be pirated.

For example:
IBM (& Dassault systemes) is producing the "killer app" CATIA-software
suite only for Windows and AIX.
They could anytime publish it under Linux - they even admitted that
inside IBM, they've long compiled it under Linux!
It would be foolish now to conclude they want the AIX/Power5-platform
to be sold and boycott Lin-tel machines: Nope, they're move
not to support Linux is achieving the opposite: Users are driven to use
the cheaper Windows-machines! The real reason is that
they have REASONABLE DOUBT that Linux users that paid $0.00 for their
OS (and found the PC's motherboard somewhere on
an electronics junk-yard) would EVER pay $50.000,00 for a piece of
software...

In other words, only those users that have paid a chunk of money for
the operating system are trusted also to pay for software lateron

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