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the payment is about seven dollar according to the article This is unrealistic in practice. The Simple Dollar article cited describes making >$7 in an hour, but $6.55 of that comes…

Whereas what you've written...

Are you sure about that? This seems to say exactly the opposite. In fact, WOA only supports running code that has been distributed through Windows Update along with the full spectr…

What do people do with this?

Copyright is not a right I don't think you've thought that through. Forcing people into pirating Nobody is forced into pirating.

You're comparing purchase with subscription.

Is a group of Nazis less wrong than one Nazi?

Why?

Why not just pirate it?

From the ScienceDaily article:"The findings held true, irrespective of anxiety/depression during adolescence, parental social class, and lifetime household income."

Besides, open-source does not mean open-development. Google has done a lot to confuse this by referring to everything as just "open". They were still calling Android open even when…

Troll. (Edit: You'll downvote me, but not the troll? WTF?)

That kind of post doesn't work as well when the text isn't green.

Apple's claims of "look and feel" were absurd on their face as anyone comparing Windows 3 and MacOS can plainly see. I'm not going to engage you on this, because I don't know what …

Nobody except Apple sued another company claiming ownership of the GUI That's disingenuous. Apple v. Microsoft stemmed from their existing licensing agreement. It also didn't claim…

The point is not dependent on the words being synonymous, nor did I ever claim that they were. (edit: I mistook who I was responding to and changed the comment accordingly.)

Why do we cringe at the idea of single-digit numbers of record labels, movie studios, or publishers, but not at search engines, operating system vendors, etc?

You've got it completely scrambled: Nobody is being asked to describe the feeling of being harassed. That was the word Udo chose to describe the feeling of dealing with a salespers…

You make it sound like I'm drooling into a cup. I think you did that fine on your own, to be honest. The attitude expressed in your posts reeks of pride in ignorance. It's like you…

Maybe we just don't want to deal with salespeople but instead judge the product on our own without being harassed. It astonishes me that you're able to describe interactions with s…

I like how you cut straight to the ad hominem and kept it up the whole way through.

And yours?

The iPod improved the lives of its users considerably more than Google's ads, which are its actual business.

Wolfram Alpha tells me that $399 in 2001 is $498.06 today.

It's almost like people who aren't you can have different opinions than you.