Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by Razengan on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:27PM
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Without piracy, many third-world populations may have never been able to really use computers until about 2005-2010.
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Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by eikenberry on Sunday April 07, 2019 @05:25PM
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You're off by 10-15 years as free software operating systems have been usable since at least the mid 90s. But there was a period before that which what you say was true which was one of the big reasons behind the GNU project.