Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:54:52 +0500 (MVT)
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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?

> 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.