Anyway, I tried here to buy pirated software but I failed. I made many
announcements that I want to buy Windows 98, but no one made an offer and this
is a city of 400000 people and many have Windows 98. Yet, more than 90 % of the
Romanians use Windows XP and some sort of Microsoft Office illegally at home.
Microsoft software is expensive but affordable here. Yet, "it is not worth
buying it", because you can get it for free from a relative or a friend or
colleague or even from the boss. I myself have all sorts of things here.
For me, personally, cost is important, but it is not the main issue. I hate
monopoly, no matter what kind of monopoly it is. Corporate monopoly is at least
as bad as Communist state monopoly. If there were only one OS available to be
used, even if it were for free and we were forced to use it I would certainly
hate it.
And there are so many choices, so many kinds of Linux and Unix and others and
these people stick to Microsoft products !