Comments on: INDUCE and Windows http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2587 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2587/comment-page-1#comment-5968 Reader's Write Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:51:18 +0000 #comment-5968 Gartner Linux piracy claim is pants Open Sourcers strike back By Nick Farrell: Friday 01 October 2004, 09:50 A CLAIM by IT experts the Gartner Group that Linux downloads are a cover for piracy has been dismissed by the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA). The Big G’s claim (see here), was that more than three quarters of Linux shipments are likely to end up running Windows and very often pirated versions. However the OSIA told the Sydney Morning Herald that if Gartner’s conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct, then this "tenuous logic" could be extended. It would be possible to state that pre-installing Windows encourages people to pirate application software. An OSIA spokesman said that if there was no Windows OS on the PC, then users couldn't pirate other products like Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office or Dreamweaver which need Windows in order to be used. The Association said that Gartner’s thought process led to such ridiculous conclusions and it was surprised that the analysts started down this route. The spokesman added there was no advantage for PC resellers who tried to use Linux as a means of shipping lower priced PCs. He said the vendors could ship a PC without any operating system at all which would be cheaper than putting Linux on it. If PC vendors were selling Linux pre-installed computers that can only mean there is demand for Linux on the desktop. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18812 TT Gartner Linux piracy claim is pants

Open Sourcers strike back

By Nick Farrell: Friday 01 October 2004, 09:50
A CLAIM by IT experts the Gartner Group that Linux downloads are a cover for piracy has been dismissed by the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA).

The Big G’s claim (see here), was that more than three quarters of Linux shipments are likely to end up running Windows and very often pirated versions.

However the OSIA told the Sydney Morning Herald that if Gartner’s conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct, then this “tenuous logic” could be extended. It would be possible to state that pre-installing Windows encourages people to pirate application software.

An OSIA spokesman said that if there was no Windows OS on the PC, then users couldn’t pirate other products like Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office or Dreamweaver which need Windows in order to be used.

The Association said that Gartner’s thought process led to such ridiculous conclusions and it was surprised that the analysts started down this route. The spokesman added there was no advantage for PC resellers who tried to use Linux as a means of shipping lower priced PCs.

He said the vendors could ship a PC without any operating system at all which would be cheaper than putting Linux on it.

If PC vendors were selling Linux pre-installed computers that can only mean there is demand for Linux on the desktop.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18812

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