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by Thomas on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @04:16

> The Linux users don't want free (as in free spech) games, they just want commercial quality without pay a single buck.

Well, from my experience... that's exactly the habit of most windows users. The license for the OS comes with buying the PC (they don't feel it, cause the dealer is not telling 'em how much of the buying price is license fee to Microsoft)...

Anything else is going to be ripped, pirated... whatever...
The usual windows users has MS Office Pro, has Adobe Photoshop, has full Acrobat Pro, several pirated games, WinZip full... crackz and serialz are the business in the windows world.... the number of cracked Vista installations is inreasing rapidly (cause nobody wants the "home edition", which is rather cheap and is what you usually get as consumer)

We have several OSS alternatives on hand in the Linux world. But if you want to have CAD and ERP solutions (as I do) on Linux, there're several commercial offers available. Usually people in the OSS world do care a lot more about licenses and the charges for using commercial software, than you obiously expect.

There's no need to install Linux just to get something "for free" (as in free beer), because software piracy is a flourishing business in the Windows world.

You're going to give Linux a try for various other reasons. First, you want to do more than just playing games on your machine. Second, you freak out with this Vista-thingy, cause it just gets on your nerves... You feel like banging your head against a wall all the time when using Vista (honestly, this really is how a lot of people who just want to work with their PCs are feeling atm...) You start to look for something else (in the hope it might suit your needs better). You can try Apple and Mac OS X... and you can try Linux. _That's_ what's happening atm.... Most people will like what they see when trying Linux, some won't...

I just spoke to someone who tried Linux after his personal Vista desaster. He told me, he feels "free" now. It's like you're loosing 20 pounds of weight. It's slick, it's powerful and it's full of nice nifty (and actually useful) things (he was speaking of KDE).

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