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Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?Posted Aug 13, 2004 12:09 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)In reply to: Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? by Duncan Parent article: China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net) In Russia and other former Soviet Union countries Mac simply does not exist. Few publishing agencies use them but that probably about it. For example, I do not remember if I even heard about pirated software for Mac, but pirates sell Linux distributions for about 2 USD per disk as they do with any other software.
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Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 12:12 UTC (Fri) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link] I am not aware of any major Linux distribution that can be "pirated".
Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 13:17 UTC (Fri) by petebull (guest, #7857) [Link] SuSE releases had non-free software in it, and only SuSE got permissionto redistribute the products from the propietary software writers. And were there not Mandrake releases that were available only to the Mandrake Club subscribers for a period of time? And while you could reproduce RedHat CD-sets you were not allowed to reproduce the artwork because of trademark policy. Can you come up with another major (in my sense: profit motivated) distribution? I don't know anything of Connectivas distribution. Any errors I made above are mine, so please report them with the reply function ;)
Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 15:18 UTC (Fri) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854) [Link] Of course, these was/is Caldera... (*ducks quickly*)
Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 19:26 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] You guessed it. Caldera Linux is what you'll find next to Windows XP and Adobe Photoshop on Russian CD bazaars.
Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 22:52 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link] To comply with GPL any distributor must either include the source or provide written guaranty that he will provide the source upon request for 3 years. It is not enough to simply point to the software author web site. http://busybox.net/license.html summarize that nicely.So technically any binary Linux CD sold without such guarantor is a violation of copyright laws. Linux "resellers" I saw in Moscow or Minsk almost never have source CDs and I guess they do not include any written offers either ;)
Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? Posted Aug 13, 2004 15:59 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Of course there is pirated software for Mac! You only need to ask - but of course it'll cost extra. As I recall when my friend needed CodeWarrior for Mac he was forced to pay $5 per CD (4 CD in total) instead of usual $2 and wait for two days but it was available. Lindows^H^H^H^H^HLinspire or Xandros on the other hand is readily available for standard $2 - almost like Windows software so we can safely guess it's more widespread then Mac...
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