Re: [opensuse] legalities
- From: Richard Creighton <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:32:37 -0400
Jeremy Figgins wrote:
<snip>
//begin-rantarrested!
That's a
brilliant move on Microsoft's part. Not only convince the manufacturers
to put Windows on every computer, but to also get the salespeople to
convince everyone else that the computer with Linux on it is somehow
breaking the law. That Linux users are criminals and will soon be
//end-rant
Brilliant move, absolutely, ethical, absolutely not. When this set a
perfectly innocent young lady into fits of guilt thinking that she was
doing something illegal just asking for information in this forum
because of the mindset induced buy the 'brilliant move', I have to draw
the line and say enough is enough. Linux is the vehicle, our way out
of that mindset because it allows and encourages freedom to use and
distribute the software for the machine owners benefit, not for some
corporate giant that has made a brilliant marketing move.
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