FREE SOFTWARE (Now the pirates have no excuse)

[marksteele]

The only reasons pirate pirate is because they are too lazy to look around for an open source software, or they're people who are Limewire n00bs that download everything they come across.

wow if you think that pirates only use limewire then your really misinformed and not only that but to say that the pirates have no excuse is insulting. In some countries (canada included) it is legal to download music and other media of the internet for personal use. The law states that you can backup media and have it legal what this law does not say is where this media comes from (ie: internet, cd-rom, mp3, ipod, etc) so therefor the CRIA charged a levy on cd's and unwittingly legalized pirating in Canada so b4 you call us (yes US i do it to) n00bs get your facts STRAIGHT


note: can you please edit the "(Now the pirates have no excuse)" out of the topic please

edit: thanks for the links anyway since this law does not apply to software

 

[Smith6612]

wow if you think that pirates only use limewire then your really misinformed and not only that but to say that the pirates have no excuse is insulting. In some countries (canada included) it is legal to download music and other media of the internet for personal use. The law states that you can backup media and have it legal what this law does not say is where this media comes from (ie: internet, cd-rom, mp3, ipod, etc) so therefor the CRIA charged a levy on cd's and unwittingly legalized pirating in Canada so b4 you call us (yes US i do it to) n00bs get your facts STRAIGHT


note: can you please edit the "(Now the pirates have no excuse)" out of the topic please

edit: thanks for the links anyway since this law does not apply to software

I'm not misinformed. I know that pirates can use other apps like uTorrent/BitTorrent, they can use normal download servers, transfer over IM, etc. I'm will aware of the things out there. Most n00b pirates use Limewire for things like getting songs and some virused up apps, while the more serious pirates tend to stick to torrents.

 

[marksteele]

still you call us lazy do you know how hard it is to acatually find some of this stuff?

 

[shaunak]

gmax is now obsolete and not free...

 

[soporteweb]

Good list, u can add Ubunto http://www.ubuntu.com/

thanks

 

[RomeRome2]

Not all pirates use programs to download stuff. Some use direct downloads or DDLs, this is where people upload them to a site, and the person that gets the link downloads it, like any normal site, the most popular are rapidshare.com and megaupload.com

 

[coduk]

add xampp to the web hosts, i know its just apache with stuff added, but its still good + i think microsoft made SQL server 2005 free with management studio express, or a small version of it anyways...

Nice post, thanks.

 

[LegendX]

wow those are real helpful links being im a game developer =) thanks

 

[FalseHope]

Mighty long list. Thank you for posting them

 

[Rolyin]

What about MSN for IM clients?

 

[Smith6612]

What about MSN for IM clients?

Isn't MSN's software already free? Unless you are thinking of an Alternative from Windows Live Messenger, there are programs like Trillian and another open source program I've used a while ago to do that.