Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/21/12:03:14
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Prashant TR wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
>
> > Actually considering that over in my part of the world (SE asia) software
> > piracy is rampant, most people haven't heard about DJGPP or care about GNU
> > etc. All they have to do is get the pirated cd of WATCOM or VC++ for about
> > 2$ and install it and away they go.
>
> IMHO, this is like being too general. I stay in SE asia, too, and I
> agree that there's a some amount of piracy stuff. But it's everyhere. I
> don't believe piracy can wipe out GNU. And btw, for $2, I get Linux +
> DJGPP + lots of stuff from the CDROM I get with my local magazine. Isn't
> that safer and *better* than anything else?
Not really. For about 2$ you can get a CD which contains watcom 11.x,
Borland C++, and a whole lot of other compiler utilities.
You can also get cd-roms with microsoft C++ etc.
>
> > It would be really interesting to find out that if you give a person a
> > choice were money is not involved (ie like pirated cd's) whether they
> > would go for Watcom or DJGPP.
>
> I wouldn't take any risks of using pirated stuff. Even my old Win 95 is
> licensed.
There aren't any risks as such. All these guys do is mass duplicate the cd
in question and let us have it at a very reasonable price of 2 US$.
IMHO If people are really paranoid I suppose a latest virus scanner should
help.
Allmost every kind of software ranging from windoze to photoshop is
available.
The only time I used a licensed win95 was when it came with my old
computer.
IMHO we shouldn't pay exorbitant prices when we can get the same software
at a cheaper rate. I know there maybe ceartian "purists" who will think
that this is a "cheap" and "not ethical" thing to do, but I'd also like to
see whether these same people would walk by ignoring a shop selling
Photoshop, Neopaint, Quake III CD's for only 2$.
Grendel
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