After telling Luje to grow up earlier, you express a somewhat similiar unreflected POV. Calling someone who uses open source software (Linux) immoral is not very mature in itself.

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After telling Luje to grow up earlier, you express a somewhat similiar unreflected POV. Calling someone who uses open source software (Linux) immoral is not very mature in itself.

He said that he doesn't use ANY non-free software. Presumably he steals some of it as it is highly unlikely that everything he wants to use is free. For example, presumably he had to pay for the operating system which is running DVD Profiler. Aside from this, I consider anyone who disdains the profit motive as immoral, as he shows contempt for that which fosters all innovation and progression in society. You need to grow up and learn how the world actually works. Your perspective is juvenile.

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Quoting Darxon:

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After telling Luje to grow up earlier, you express a somewhat similiar unreflected POV. Calling someone who uses open source software (Linux) immoral is not very mature in itself.

He said that he doesn't use ANY non-free software. Presumably he steals some of it as it is highly unlikely that everything he wants to use is free. For example, presumably he had to pay for the operating system which is running DVD Profiler. Aside from this, I consider anyone who disdains the profit motive as immoral, as he shows contempt for that which fosters all innovation and progression in society. You need to grow up and learn how the world actually works. Your perspective is juvenile.

You're not improving my take on your character in the least by making these assumptions out of the blue....

Glad this is in the "General" forum, so it can't be labelled OT:

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He said that he doesn't use ANY non-free software. Presumably he steals some of it as it is highly unlikely that everything he wants to use is free.

That's a big leap, and an offensive conclusion based on no evidence on your part.

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For example, presumably he had to pay for the operating system which is running DVD Profiler.

Nope. Linux & WINE. I suggest you make sure your facts are right before inserting foot in mouth.

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Aside from this, I consider anyone who disdains the profit motive as immoral, as he shows contempt for that which fosters all innovation and progression in society.

Oh dear. As has been said by a number of people:

"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

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And when they say they're going to look for a "better" solution, it just gets me going.

Bigger problem is, it gets us going, but it keeps'em staying, as they find out there's no better solution around.

Cheers,

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Glad this is in the "General" forum, so it can't be labelled OT:

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He said that he doesn't use ANY non-free software. Presumably he steals some of it as it is highly unlikely that everything he wants to use is free.

That's a big leap, and an offensive conclusion based on no evidence on your part.

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For example, presumably he had to pay for the operating system which is running DVD Profiler.

Nope. Linux & WINE. I suggest you make sure your facts are right before inserting foot in mouth.

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Aside from this, I consider anyone who disdains the profit motive as immoral, as he shows contempt for that which fosters all innovation and progression in society.

Oh dear. As has been said by a number of people:

"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."[/blockquote

I don't think much of some bum who uses an emulator to rob Microsoft of profits to which they are legally entitled. Without Windows to emulate, these bums would not need to worry about using an emulator to run Windows based freeware. Are you suggesting that Microsoft recognizes WINE as a legitimate program? If not, then this program is a form of theft. If nobody was paid for developing programs, there would soon be no new programs. You and your ilk may enjoy working for nothing, but rational individuals expect to get paid for their work.

I guess you meant altruism

But I disagree about using a whatyoumacallit, an emulator, is stealing. There are numerous emulators that allow running Windows software on an Apple, or PS2 or PSOne games on a Windows machine. I don't use em, but I know people who do. I don't think this is theft, but this allows people to play (in this example) games on a pc.
Same goes for anyone who is using Ubuntu, or WINE???, or Linux and wanting to run certain Microsoft programs.

What I do see is someone who is 'clouded' by LINUS, or Windows. I have a team off developers on one hand I have people who are pro Microsoft and on the other hand ones pro LINUX.
They discussions they have from time to time are time-consumming and always in the end. They still don't see each others point of view.
I am just a 'stupid' user. I can see some of the ease/stability of the LINUX platform, that is why my company has implemented LINUX servers at the customer we are working for. On the other hand the ease where we do our work on, by using Microsoft Word and all types of other programs like IDEs. Then the Windows system is very nice to use.
I am glad that Bill Microsoft Gates did `steal` the idea for the GUI environment from Steve Jobs and make a lot of things easy!