* Posts by Natxo

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Indian dealers are squealers over Microsoft piracy raids

Natxo

that is fair enough

if the rest of the world has to put up with ms licensing schemes, why wouldn't India have to?

And if they do not want to, well, there *are* alternatives out there. Get ubuntu or freespire or fedora for that matter, linux for the masses.

As for the comment : "As for linux... you can compete with FREE.. then again if a product is FREE and almost no body is using it.. there must be a reason? don't you think?(here a hint... User Interface. may in 10 years)";

sir: I do not know when you have used linux, but it sure has not been in the last 4 to 5 years. People use Windows because it comes bundled with their pc's and because everybody has it. It really is a chicken-egg situation. The only way to break this dynamic would be ..., exacty, if the shops started pre-installing linux for the clients because it would otherwise cost the customers loads of $$$. Then people would start using it, the handy neighbour could also help you if you had problems with it and the circle would be round again.

I know plenty of people who just use our linux without even realizing that it is linux. Once they know they feel stupid: "I thought linux was difficult". Well, some things are, but they do not need to those, just like they do not need to do the hard parts with their windows pc's. There is always someone else who does that for them.

yours truly.