Comments on: The Economy and Open Source http://www.thelinuxblog.com/the-economy-and-open-source/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Owen http://www.thelinuxblog.com/the-economy-and-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1175 Owen Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:49:11 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/the-economy-and-open-source/#comment-1175 @Gregeth

I agree with you about people pirating software. Even in the Apple world people copy software all the time. The problem with this is that as more people move to Apple, you can be sure that they will attempt to fix this. Take a look at the iPhone app store, if they set up a service like that for their operating system allowing companies to publish/distribute their software that way it could force more people to use the open source alternatives.

]]> By: gregeth http://www.thelinuxblog.com/the-economy-and-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 gregeth Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:58:48 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/the-economy-and-open-source/#comment-1154 While I think we will certainly an increase in FOSS/linux software over the following years, it may still not be as much as it could be. When it comes to personal computers many see a choice not between free and $100, but instead pirating package X instead of using the free alternative. I’ve seen this quite a bit where people will complain about the prices of the software they use, but then instead of trying something else, just get a copy from someone or find a cracked version.

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