[Gllug] Priracy.

[Peter Childs]

	Linux is never going to replace Windows until people start 
replising that Software Piracy is a real crime and is exactly the same as 
Stealling. 
	Its not the law abiding computer users we need to convert most of
them know that If its leally free and it works its good. But how do we
tell the great users of Grokster and the like that Linux is free when they
argue that windows is free becuase I can down load it for free from the
internet using Grokster.
	Like any criminal activity it damages the real work, and strangly 
that of real Open Source Software (Which just so happerns to be Leally 
free)
	The problem seams to be that software piracy is not really sean as 
a crime and the likly hood of being found is neally zero. If only becuase 
a good copy of windows is very difficult to prove.
	In short although Linux is free and Open. we still have to do
battle with Windows becuase many people "Think" windows is free too (Just
not Open Source which means nothing to most people)
	

Peter Childs


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