Do something about MS shitware -- Pirate them!
Ioi K. Lam
without being caught? I guess not. But whenever you get a chance,
pirate them from your friends! You will be doing good. A priest told
me that if you pirate $10,000 worth of MS programs you can go to
heaven.
Ioi
phy...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
> Is there a safe way of distributing 100,000,000 copies of MS programs
> without being caught? I guess not. But whenever you get a chance,
> pirate them from your friends! You will be doing good. A priest told
What church ? I am interested in joining them.
(sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
> me that if you pirate $10,000 worth of MS programs you can go to
> heaven.
>
> Ioi
Ryurick M. Hristev
phy...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Donal K. Fellows
Ioi K. Lam <i...@blue.seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Is there a safe way of distributing 100,000,000 copies of MS programs
>without being caught? I guess not. But whenever you get a chance,
>pirate them from your friends! You will be doing good. A priest told
>heaven.
>
Hmm. That's incitement to commit a crime, so I won't encourage people
to actually go out there and do it. Better would be to take your
pre-loaded copies of M$DOG and WinDoze to Redmond and burn them all
publically while singing the national anthem of your choice... :)
Seriously, why should I pirate a copy of ExHell when I have plenty of
things that are (for my purposes at least) better?
Donal.
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Warwick Allison
>Is there a safe way of distributing 100,000,000 copies of MS programs
>without being caught? I guess not. But whenever you get a chance,
>pirate them from your friends! You will be doing good. A priest told
>me that if you pirate $10,000 worth of MS programs you can go to
>heaven.
"Why use EMACS? I can get MS-Write from work!"
"Why use Linux/X11? I can get MS-Windows from my friend Joe!"
"Why use XPaint? I can get MS-Draw from my friend Sue!"
The piracy of commercial software is one of the forces that are
fighting against Free Software.
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>Hmm. That's incitement to commit a crime, so I won't encourage people
>to actually go out there and do it. Better would be to take your
>pre-loaded copies of M$DOG and WinDoze to Redmond and burn them all
>publically while singing the national anthem of your choice... :)
>Seriously, why should I pirate a copy of ExHell when I have plenty of
>things that are (for my purposes at least) better?
>Donal.
What's M$-DOG? oh... you mean that Boot-virus... (heh)
Also... I have heard many homonymns for windows (like WinDoze) but my favorite
one is "WinBloze" :)
ExHell! i love it!
if anyone else has any humorous names for software that either "just doesnt
cut it", or comes from a company like M$, please post them... hehehe.
-broken
http://www.neosoft.com/~broken/ (use netscape... the ONLY www browser.)
Robert Brockway
: cut it", or comes from a company like M$, please post them... hehehe.
I just love 'winever', it is so appropriate.
:-)
-Robert
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snail mail: never mind.
Computers: Can't live with them, can't play Doom without them.
Har-Peled Sariel
: : ExHell! i love it!
: : if anyone else has any humorous names for software that either "just doesnt
: : cut it", or comes from a company like M$, please post them... hehehe.
: I just love 'winever', it is so appropriate.
: :-)
: -Robert
My favorite is LemmingWare 95.
Sariel
: --Robert Brockway, email: ec53...@student.uq.edu.au
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: snail mail: never mind.
: Computers: Can't live with them, can't play Doom without them.
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Rik Van Riel
HS> Date: 11 Jul 1995 19:45:49 GMT
HS> Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv ,
HS> ISRAEL.
HS> Robert Brockway (rob...@ec531667.slip.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote:
HS> : : ExHell! i love it!
HS> : : if anyone else has any humorous names for software that either
HS> "just doesnt
HS> : : cut it", or comes from a company like M$, please post
HS> them... hehehe.
HS> : I just love 'winever', it is so appropriate.
HS> : -Robert
HS> My favorite is LemmingWare 95.
HS> Sariel
It might not be from M$, but I just thought up a
new one:
[drum roffle]
[curtains open]
[big billboard is uncovered]
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Eric Williams @ PCB x5577
|> In article <3sg9ro$s...@netnews.upenn.edu>,
|> Ioi K. Lam <i...@blue.seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
|> >without being caught? I guess not. But whenever you get a chance,
|> >pirate them from your friends! You will be doing good. A priest told
|> >me that if you pirate $10,000 worth of MS programs you can go to
|> >heaven.
|> >
|>
|> to actually go out there and do it. Better would be to take your
|> pre-loaded copies of M$DOG and WinDoze to Redmond and burn them all
|> publically while singing the national anthem of your choice... :)
|>
|> Seriously, why should I pirate a copy of ExHell when I have plenty of
|> things that are (for my purposes at least) better?
There is a problem with the current system of preloading
Windoze on every system sold. I would hope that a vendor
has the option of selling "clean" systems without sacrificing
profitability.
The best way of doing something about MS s**tware is to
remove the dependency in the first place. To that end:
1> A spreadsheet in Linux that can import and export
M$-Excel files.
2> Something that can replace Office.
3> Something that can replace Encarta.
4> Something that can replace Windoze. (like Wine)
I'm no expert, but these should be a start. (I don't
do spreadsheets, I program in C/C++ :-) )
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Donal K. Fellows
Eric Williams @ PCB x5577 <ew...@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com> wrote:
>In article <3tdn82$k...@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, fell...@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
>|> Hmm. That's incitement to commit a crime, so I won't encourage people
>|> to actually go out there and do it. Better would be to take your
>|> pre-loaded copies of M$DOG and WinDoze to Redmond and burn them all
>|> publically while singing the national anthem of your choice... :)
>|>
>|> Seriously, why should I pirate a copy of ExHell when I have plenty of
>|> things that are (for my purposes at least) better?
>
>
>There is a problem with the current system of preloading
>Windoze on every system sold. I would hope that a vendor
>has the option of selling "clean" systems without sacrificing
>profitability.
>
My latest PC came without WinDoze (I specifically asked to not have it
:^), and the DOG that it had was without manuals and disks (and wasn't
paid for). That I got it at all didn't matter, since the first thing I
did was to repartition the HD... :^)
>The best way of doing something about MS s**tware is to
>remove the dependency in the first place. To that end:
>
>1> A spreadsheet in Linux that can import and export
> M$-Excel files.
>
Why export ExHell files? You want people to move _to_ Linux, not from
it :^)
>2> Something that can replace Office.
>
A car park. A tree. A twelve-lane freeway!
>3> Something that can replace Encarta.
>
That would require a lot of effort...
>4> Something that can replace Windoze. (like Wine)
>
We've already got that. The fact that there are a lot of people who
don't want to use X native apps doesn't invalidate X as a solution...
>I'm no expert, but these should be a start. (I don't
>do spreadsheets, I program in C/C++ :-) )
>
I program in Tcl/Tk and perl (and some C, unfortunately), but I still
fail to see why you even let Billelzebub set the agenda...
Donal.
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|> In article <3uev1v$o...@oddball.sjc.mentorg.com>,
|> Eric Williams @ PCB x5577 <ew...@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com> wrote:
|> >In article <3tdn82$k...@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, fell...@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
|> >|> Hmm. That's incitement to commit a crime, so I won't encourage people
|> >|> to actually go out there and do it. Better would be to take your
|> >|> pre-loaded copies of M$DOG and WinDoze to Redmond and burn them all
|> >|> publically while singing the national anthem of your choice... :)
|> >|>
|> >|> Seriously, why should I pirate a copy of ExHell when I have plenty of
|> >|> things that are (for my purposes at least) better?
|> >
|> >
|> >There is a problem with the current system of preloading
|> >Windoze on every system sold. I would hope that a vendor
|> >has the option of selling "clean" systems without sacrificing
|> >profitability.
|> >
|>
|> My latest PC came without WinDoze (I specifically asked to not have it
|> :^), and the DOG that it had was without manuals and disks (and wasn't
|> paid for). That I got it at all didn't matter, since the first thing I
|> did was to repartition the HD... :^)
There is hope for this world.
|>
|> >The best way of doing something about MS s**tware is to
|> >remove the dependency in the first place. To that end:
|> >
|> >1> A spreadsheet in Linux that can import and export
|> > M$-Excel files.
|> >
|>
|> Why export ExHell files? You want people to move _to_ Linux, not from
|> it :^)
It is possible that within an organization during transition that you may
need to do this.
|>
|> >2> Something that can replace Office.
|> >
|>
|> A car park. A tree. A twelve-lane freeway!
*grin* Not having used Office, I can't comment. However,
if it is simply a suite of mail/notepad editors/etc. then
any competent Unix should have these.
|>
|> >3> Something that can replace Encarta.
|> >
|>
|> That would require a lot of effort...
|>
|> >4> Something that can replace Windoze. (like Wine)
|> >
|>
|> We've already got that. The fact that there are a lot of people who
|> don't want to use X native apps doesn't invalidate X as a solution...
|>
|> >I'm no expert, but these should be a start. (I don't
|> >do spreadsheets, I program in C/C++ :-) )
|> >
|>
|> I program in Tcl/Tk and perl (and some C, unfortunately), but I still
|> fail to see why you even let Billelzebub set the agenda...
Because of his 80-90% monopoly of the PC computer market,
there has to be some interface. We cannot exist in a vacuum.
There will be an ugly transition period...
|>
|> Donal.
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|> University of Manchester | Bradford, BD9 4AE
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