Author Topic: Pirating Windows....Evil or Justified?..Justified Evil?? (Read 1724 times)

Revvin · « **Reply #30 on:** April 16, 2001, 05:40:00 PM »

Awww Sandman did I touch a nerve? LOL same old toejam fro myou, nothing new there LOL

Animal> I'd say Linux is just as good on a consumer level, try any off the shelf boxed version of Linux. They have all been made just as user friendly to setup as Windows. I'd love to play AH on linux, ifact when I next get round to doing it I'd like to see if one of the numerous Windows emulators would run it.

I've used Win 3.11, 95, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, NT4 Server and Win 2000 and while one set of bugs from the previous version gets fixed a whole load more open up. My own fault really this time I bought into all the hype about ME being more stable and having alot more features..well I won't make that mistake again

I used to have a system setup with three partitions running Red Hat Linux, Win 98SE and Win NT4, out of the three Linux was most stable followed by NT4 and then Win98SE. Star Office is a very nice product and does everything the MS Office suite does but MS has held its monopoly for so long that its still taking time for people to try another system and convert over.

My opinion does not stem from an underdog system, far from it but Microsoft has become a 'leading company' by using underhand business tactics, tactics which has seen them end up in court on numerous occassions and seen them let off because they have the money to sit on a case and hold up the process until the prosecution run out of money.

Sandman_SBM · « **Reply #31 on:** April 16, 2001, 05:50:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Revvin:
Awww Sandman did I touch a nerve? LOL same old toejam fro myou, nothing new there LOL.

I don't recall us having any conversations in the past. If you're as irritating as you like to believe, I would remember it.

Tac · « **Reply #32 on:** April 16, 2001, 06:51:00 PM »

Win95 came with my system (since all pc manufacturers have been assimilated). Since then I have not even purchased a single MS product.

Friend gets Win98 upgrade? whohoo, my win95 license still works in it. Someone else gets Win98 to win2000 upgrade? whohoo the the license number will still work.

Same thing with word and other mscrap. Love to upgrade for free.

Been looking into Linux and even thinking on digging up a copy of OS/2 . Too bad games are not supported in it

Gates, <F>!!!!

Sancho · « **Reply #33 on:** April 17, 2001, 12:53:00 AM »

There is no pirated software on my PC. I bought Windows 2000 and Office 2000. Of course, utexas.edu made a deal with MS so they only cost me $5/cd.

That's just my game box though, my file server runs OpenBSD.

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Revvin · « **Reply #34 on:** April 17, 2001, 05:32:00 AM »

Me irritating? you'd know if I wanted to be irritating, my comment about the same old toejam from you, well it is the same tired old lines from you trying to excuse the parasites that took revenue away from iEN and damaged Warbirds a great deal, the same old toejam also applies to you getting your panties all bunched when confronted over this issue.

Tac> Really? I thought they changed the code layout each release, will have to check it out LOL serves em right in a way as each new 'version' was no ore than a patch at the end of the day

Seeker · « **Reply #35 on:** April 17, 2001, 07:13:00 AM »

Interesting thread, Sandman, thanks.

Isn't it strange that at the same time AH offers 8 way H2H; AW removed H2H capability in it's latest version.

Does the new WB (3?) have H2H still?

Sandman_SBM · « **Reply #36 on:** April 17, 2001, 07:32:00 AM »

Revvin... there is no issue. There hasn't been for some time now. You don't know anything about it except what you've gathered from the periphery and I won't be losing any sleep over your uninformed, self-righteous, vitriolic opinion of me. Opinions are like amazinhunks... Everyone has one... some of them stink.

By all means... keep your opinion... I have absolutely no desire to change it.

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Seeker... why did AW disable the feature? As for WB... no clue... been flying AH for months now... have no intention of going back to WB.

cheers
sand

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Revvin · « **Reply #37 on:** April 17, 2001, 09:27:00 AM »

Not just my opinion though as many shared the same view when all this first came out..funny how we're all wrong and you are right eh?

Seeker> AFAIK there is no H2H in WBIII Beta and H2H has been broken a while in WB, partly thanks to the Freehosters.

Sandman_SBM · « **Reply #38 on:** April 17, 2001, 09:48:00 AM »

Rather doubt that the lack of H2H on WB3 has anything to do with FreeHosters... that server that is running in Russia is an entirely different setup than the one Itmo created. As I understand it from posts on the Freebirds UBB, it's not an exploitation of the WB H2H feature. It's a full-blown arena with rolling planesets and other additions, exactly what iEN feared all along.

Of course, I could be wrong. I don't know anything about Freebirds other than what I've read on the UBB.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #39 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:00:00 PM »

I'm sorry, but the arguments for piracy being ok because Microsoft sucks so bad are so diddlying weak its pathetic.

I do believe many people today take so much for granted that they just assume that everything was always this easy. They forget that there used to be a list of compatable cards on the back of every game that wanted to use more than 4 colors. They forget what it was like trying to free up 620k of lower memory to run AOTP or Falcon3. They forget what it was like before plug and play and cheap components.

Now, people feign ignorance and vilify a company that has done more for software development than any of them are even remotely willing to admit.

Sure.. cite the bugs.. cite whatever other feable excuse you want to come up with. Most people know better, even if they don't want to admit it.

AKDejaVu

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TheWobble · « **Reply #40 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:29:00 PM »

you can only crank out totaly buggy toejam and expect people to pay extravagent prices for it for so long.......thats about all there is to it.

Smut · « **Reply #41 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:33:00 PM »

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Originally posted by TheWobble:
you can only crank out totaly buggy toejam and expect people to pay extravagent prices for it for so long.......thats about all there is to it.

Then vote with your wallet. Don't buy it.

It doesn't justify stealing. Ever. And that is what software piracy is. Period.

So run along Mr Pirate; you'll get no pat on the back from me.

-Smut

Fatty · « **Reply #42 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:35:00 PM »

You steal a lot of Ford Pintos?

TheWobble · « **Reply #43 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:37:00 PM »

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Then vote with your wallet. Don't buy it.

Exactly.

Eagler · « **Reply #44 on:** April 17, 2001, 03:56:00 PM »

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Originally posted by TheWobble:

Exactly.

But then don't use it either or it is STEALING slick. Is your next thread going to justify murder or adultery?

Eagler