seopher.com — This Internet poll shows a near 50/50 split on whether open source software has reduced your need to pirate software. Such an equal split can be interpreted several ways but does it mean that attitudes need changing?
Nov 6, 2006 View in Crawl 4
wisgaryNov 7, 2006
This just in:100% of buyers feel Free TVs reduce their urge to steal TVs.
Closed AccountNov 8, 2006
Masam, It is much easier to download a Torrent of Photoshop and crack it than try to use GIMP. Also, f**k Torrents and f**k GIMP. Damn CommieNazis
gorndogNov 8, 2006
Every time I use XP I think, man I need to buy another 512MB ram.(running XP as a VMWare server guest -- for the two apps I use, occasionally, that aren't available on Linux.)
macewanNov 8, 2006
You don't get the urge to steal something that you have for free.
masamunecyrusNov 8, 2006
@dacheetah:I love Photoshop and using GIMP makes me cringe, but it seems to me that most pepole pirate Photoshop so that they can make forum sigs, or just have a basic image editor for online purposes. For those things, GIMP works just fine. Of course, for photo editing, original content, and flexibility, Photoshop beats it hands-down.However, I do agree that OpenOffice is a better example. And I'll have to check out that formula thing -- I'm a Physics major, too!
troopaNov 8, 2006
I replaced Photoshop with Paint.NET - give it a look.
seopherNov 8, 2006Submitter
but the TV given away for free only has 40% of the channels?
zackrNov 9, 2006
No! Not what I meant at all! All I said was - the open source alternatives may be very, very good. It is the task of the software publishers to try and better their products to be competitive. No idea how you could have misread me so much...