Now, many are going to hate me for this... But I don't think that a per-seat license is wrong. A piece of software is as hard to create as a hardware. Yet, you cannot use one graphics card for two computers (not in a sane way). And everybody seems to be fine with it. Games, it's one per-seat as well. Or else you don't get the multi-player in most cases. Just think that Zelda 64 took about 4-5 years to develop... and everybody seems fine with it.

The same applies for everything. Software is just as important as hardware. Each is useless without the other. What I've to disagree (and kinda hate) MS for is the charge applied for it's products. A WinXP is Sweden costs, well, a lot of money. But it's not that expensive compared to the salaries in here. It's about 200-300 US dollars here(?) The very same price is charged in Afghanistan, India or Brazil (country where I've leved for a long time), where 200-300 dollars is a lot of money for a program, which is not even good by the way.

Most will fall into piracy or alternatives as Linux. Indeed, there're millionaire companies in any countries, and I hope that in time, after using Linux they will give it some credits ($$$) to the developers. A little cash would boost things up a little (not that it need to be boost up, but money won't do any harm) Companies should not see Linux as a free thing of making business, but as a tool which can be developed together with their company.

if (money > 0)
linuxCash ++

I didn't say a per-seat license is wrong. But one is wrong when Microsoft charges it for every computer whether it's running their product or not. I remember the incident between MS and the Portland school district a couple of years ago. MS told them they would have to inventory around 10,000 computers in a shorty amount of time to see if they were paying the correct license fees. Portland told them to shove off and installed Linux.

Upcoming User Linux. No per-seat license
http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html

Oh I know what you mean, and you are right. I've always payed for MS products myself "indirectly", because I've always bought new computer from stores, and all stores that I've been buying computer ship them with Windows... Pretty lame. At least the last one, that I'm using now, I've built myself .

korean made linux = http://kr.hancom.com/, http://en.hancom.com
chinese made linux = http://chinese2000.sniic.com/sniic/index.php
japenese made linux = http://miko.gnyo.org/

they have been doing it for a while. if you look at hancom, the government of south korea actually got a bunch of developers together to make on for itself, and the country. there office is a very good package.

cheers.

p.s. go to distrowatch and take a look at all of the linuxs' out there. take a look at what the dod thinks about ms and trusted computing. now all that we have to do is to convince the liberals that it's a bad idea.

that kicks ass, when the best country in the world decides to use the best operating system in the world, miracles happen

by the way, this is nothing new, Israel has been using Linux for some time now, especially in Tel Aviv

I hope some day that the USA bands MS. It is obvious they are a monopoly and that they are invading privcacy acts. I think the US should ban MS too. They probobaly do not want to because of all the taxes they are receiving from the company. I am sure it is a substantial amount.

Interesting!

SO Linux is so stable that it works in a warzone!