![]() ![]() ![]() The applications – often the most recent and expensive “Office” and “Photoshop” applications – are usually pirated copies, too. I don’t know who wins in that case, maybe the app vendor (unless the app is pirated as well. “Mens rea” was the term I was searching for. But finally, that’s arguable.Īnother point is… how do I express it… the feeling that it’s simply not okay to use pirated copies – software you aren’t legally permitted to use – is mostly found among those who use FOSS, while the feeling that there’s no problem with such illegal stuff is more and more present in the “I don’t care” fraction (long term “Windows” users). On Linux, there’s mostly no need to do so because of the free applications (FOSS), and since there’s WINE, you don’t need an actual MICROS~1 “Windows”. I’ve usually found the case that those who use Linux and Mac OS X do not want to use pirated copies of anything. Think of the Linux and Mac folk running it in a vm either to play with it or to run their one or two need-to-have windows apps.īecause Linux and Mac don’t exist, they can’t be used. Here, people generally don’t seem to have problems to use any illegal stuff on their PCs. I may disagree, at least from my individual observations, located in Germany. I’d argue that many people pirating windows are using other operating systems.
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