Swash my buckle and skewer me hearties!

Posted Oct 8, 2004 13:22 UTC (Fri) by nicku (guest, #777)
Parent article: Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com)

I must admit---if I were to buy a ready-made computer with some old distro pre-installed, I would re-partition, and re-install a "pirate" (swash my buckle and skewer me hearties!) version of Linux that is more recent.

But I have built all the many computers in my various houses since 1992 from parts, so I haven't yet had to, but---be warned---my pirate flag is flying, my patch is over the eye, and I am all ready for the "rape and pillage" that "piracy" entails!

My pirate ship will come out of my Trojan horse at night and will cause the destruction of all that is good in Troy!---and let that be a warning to yeh.

Okay, I'm kidding. Pirates get up to serious stuff. Ask anyone who regularly sails the Straits of Malacca. Please don't equate copying software with piracy. Piracy often involves death, destruction and rape. These things are rarely a consequence of making a copy of a CD.