Re: Vista and XSI?

["peter boeykens" <peter_b(at)skynet.be>]

Im probably going to be flamed but here goes anyway...


isnt it normal with everybody having access to digital copying hardware and 
software, with illegal copies of all kinds of media and software being so 
widespread, and with the sales for music CD's going ever downwards, that 
some initiative is taken to make piracy more difficult?
most of us find it perfectly normal to pay for our XSI license. But when it 
comes to movies and music, and additional software, and what not, people 
become less picky.
Most of us wouldnt consider stealing anything physical ever, but when it 
comes to data, everybody's in?
Can any of us here pretend to never have copied media he didnt pay for? I 
dont think so.
And most of us here even depend from media for a living...

Wether or not the OS is the proper place to fight piracy is another issue. 
But its probably the only way to do so effectively.
I dont particularly like such initiatives, but the collective behaviour of 
computer users doesnt leave much room for alternatives.

On the other hand, such an OS is perhaps no longer the proper basis for a 
serious production environment, as obviously all these built-in processes 
are spawning like crazy and take up ever more resources.
2GB to run vista? Its downright insane. Not too long ago windows didnt even 
know how to handle 2GB.

yada yada.
just my two copyrighted eurocent.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bradley Gabe" <withanar(at)stanwinston.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: RE: Vista and XSI?


"Windows"... I remember someone once said if they had only named the
product "Gates", after it's founder, it would have been more of an
honest tribute.

> You have to remember, 99% of what I do is for people using Windows.
> Youâre trying to suggest here that itâs as easy to work with Linux as
> Windows when youâre interfacing largely with clients who use Windows.
> Thatâs writing tools for Windows,  solving Windows based problems,
> dealing with windows issues. To try and work with anything other than
> Windows under such circumstances would be foolish.
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> From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of jordibares
> Sent: 30 January 2007 18:36
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Kim Aldis
> Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
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> It is your choice, but it is easy as it is easy to run windows as it
> is to run Linux, just get the right distribution.
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> On 30/1/07 18:10, "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
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> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of jordibares
> > Sent: 30 January 2007 17:52
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Bradley Gabe
> > Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
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> > I know what you are saying, but you are not forced to do so,
> [kim aldis]
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> No,you're not. But in practice it's not always easy, or for that
> matter
> preferable, to take the Linux, or the Mac route.
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