OSIA questions Gartner claim on Linux and piracy

Posted by VISITOR on Oct 1, 2004 5:06 AM EDT
The Age; By Sam Varghese
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A Gartner statement claiming that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows has been challenged by the Open Source Industry Association.The industry body for open source within Australia said in a statement that if Gartner's conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct, then this "tenuous logic" could be extended by stating that pre-installing Windows in turn must clearly encourage people to pirate application-level software.

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