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Bryan
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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1. MS Vista Ultimate
2. MS XP pro
3. MS Office 2007
4. Adobe Photoshop
5. Crytek: Crysis
If you want free software, then take free software. The alternative is to pay billionaires more money. |
Not all of the people you are stealing from are billionaires. I think only 1 or 2 people at Microsoft are billionaires--the vast majority of people employed at Microsoft make a wage like you make. Hope you're proud of being a thief! |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Bryan wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
1. MS Vista Ultimate
2. MS XP pro
3. MS Office 2007
4. Adobe Photoshop
5. Crytek: Crysis
If you want free software, then take free software. The alternative is to pay billionaires more money. |
Not all of the people you are stealing from are billionaires. I [sic]think only 1 or 2 people at Microsoft are billionaires--the vast majority of people employed at Microsoft make a wage like you make. Hope you're proud of being a thief! |
Yeah Eamo. Take it back now and say sorry. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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1. Ubuntu
2. VLC
3. Irfanview
4. Lamp
5. Firefox |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| Bryan wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
1. MS Vista Ultimate
2. MS XP pro
3. MS Office 2007
4. Adobe Photoshop
5. Crytek: Crysis
If you want free software, then take free software. The alternative is to pay billionaires more money. |
Not all of the people you are stealing from are billionaires. I [sic]think only 1 or 2 people at Microsoft are billionaires--the vast majority of people employed at Microsoft make a wage like you make. Hope you're proud of being a thief! |
Yeah Eamo. Take it back now and say sorry. |
I've just mailed Microsoft a cheque for $3000. That should cover everything. Oh, the shame and guilt!!! How can I live with it??!!!
Bryan, I believe Microsoft has created several thousand millionaires. All the guys who worked for MS in the early '80's bought shares back then and have raked in the cash since.
I guess I'm wired differently from you, because I can live ever so happily with stealing software. The thought of handing over $299 for Vista Ultimate just makes my head spin. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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With regards to trackmenot and data collection about our searches and privacy issues. I search out stuff. I'm not the only one searching out stuff. Each website I may go to already has like thousands or hundreds of thousands of others been there, too. I don't know. Privacy to me means that it affects me and maybe a few others. Does being part of a huge amount of people mean my privacy was violated?
Anyway, I kind of like the idea of a hiding/blurring function of my search stuff. I find though that some of these programs that we install come with their own set of issues. |
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KoreanAmbition
Joined: 03 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Very helpful thread.
Thanks |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| Cheonmunka wrote: |
| Does being part of a huge amount of people mean my privacy was violated? |
Yes. The amount of people that data was collected on has no relevance to it being done or not. One or one million; is there really a difference? |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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VLC
GIMP
Rhythmbox
Thunderbird
Ubuntu |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there a decent free anti-virus out there? My current one is up for renewal and I'd rather not pay if a free alternative is out there. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Firefox (although the latest version and updates are crashing a lot)
Avast or Avira (still testing Avira)
TrueCrypt
DVD Shrink (yeah, it's old, but still useful)
Open Office (I don't use it much, but it's there, and it's great) |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there a decent free anti-virus out there? My current one is up for renewal and I'd rather not pay if a free alternative is out there. |
I used Avast for years, and it does well, however, I wanted something that would scan by itself, so I am testing Avira. It seems OK, but you have to turn off all of the scan notices and update notices to run silently. It has a splash screen that pops up once a day maybe, but you can disable that using some tricks from the web.
Still testing it out. I miss Avast's light firewall. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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1. Firefox - best browser out there.
2. KM Player
3. J River Media Jukebox (lightweight, free and feature-rich)
4. Avira Antivir
5. Floola (Ipod manager) |
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wormholes101
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mogbert
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