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Well, not
Well, not
Posted May 10, 2008 19:44 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Well, not by renox
Parent article: Interview with Neil Young on Music Piracy, MP3 Hell and Finding Freaks on the Web (ReadWriteWeb)
If you didn't agree with the purchase of Windows in 1998, you could have chosen not to buy it... by choosing not to buy a computer at all. i.e., your argument is flawed because it assumes that other choices necessarily exist.
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Well, not
Posted May 14, 2008 9:10 UTC (Wed) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]
>If you didn't agree with the purchase of Windows in 1998, you could have chosen not to buy it... by choosing not to buy a computer at all. Not really, you can always build a computer from parts so no Windows installed. The only 'moral issue' I can see if the 'network effect' of the proprietary exchange formats used by proprietary software, this is an important one but it's not 'proprietary SW' per se: one such SW which would transfer its data in an open format would be perfectly okay for me (if it doesn't try to cripple the open input/output like Microsoft did for example).