[ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]

[Jeff Lightner]

He'll run Windows - just load Cygwin on top and go...

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of tom
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:28 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Robert Reese wrote:

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> On 8/23/2007 at 6:07 PM Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>> I find this interesting that the DOJ went and told Microsoft, "Bad,
>> bad!" and now is forcing people to use the very software they said
was a
>> monopoly.  They're giving this guy a monitoring system that runs on
his
>> PC in software... what's the point of the monitoring software at all?
>
> Guberment lapdogs don't know nuttin' else 'cept windows.  Let's face
it, with government pay its not like most of the agencies can afford
programmers of any salt.  (We do know which ones *can*, of course.)
>
>
>> What's even worse is that they are requiring that the man purchase a
>> license for Windows so that he can use their monitoring software.
Does
>> this make any sense to anyone else, because the sanity of it evades
me.
>> I would rather rot in jail than be forced to enter into an agreement
>> which I do not agree to, that's for sure.
>
> Just to make them ill, he oughta get Vista and see if their software
works on it.  Ooh, better yet, Windows 3.11. ;c)
>
>
> Okay, in all seriousness, what is to prevent him from getting a LiveCD
and a thumbdrive?

Well, he could work from just a thumb drive couldn't he? Such things are

bootable afterall.

I wonder if his case is assigned to an technically savy judge. That is, 
one that would be open to having evidence submitted that 1) the
monitoring 
software system is so weak as to be functionally absurd 2) forcing 
somebody to pay for software that isn't their choice isn't acceptable
and 
3) a better system can be found for about the same amount of $$$

Probably not, but I can wish
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