{"id":37,"date":"2009-06-26T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T09:40:12","slug":"software-piracy-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Software, Piracy, and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back, from a long break , more like I&#8217;ve been busy.  Two articles caught<br \/>\nmy eyes this week<\/p>\n<p>First: The New Vision, a leading daily newspaper in Uganda reported that<br \/>\nMicrosoft has hired some lawyers in Kampala, to help them fight software<br \/>\npiracy especially illegal copies of Windows.  As rightly noted by the<br \/>\npaper, very few people realize the adverse impact, such &#8216;a war on<br \/>\nsoftware piracy&#8217; could have on local business.  Its estimated that up to<br \/>\n95% of Windows OS copies in use around the country are not genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Second: Microsoft disclosed the pricing of Windows 7, the next major<br \/>\nrelease from Redmond, WA. Basically the full version of Windows 7<br \/>\nProfessional is $299.00, with upgrades going for $199.00 per copy.  You<br \/>\ncan read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/windows\/operatingsystems\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101310&#038;subSection=All+Stories\">here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well what is the alternative for Ugandan business and individuals who<br \/>\ncan not afford these costs and wish to avoid penalties for using<br \/>\nillegal copies of windows?<\/p>\n<p>You guessed it &#8211; Linux!  Try it today, and you&#8217;ll ask yourself why you<br \/>\nnever switched a long time ago. Linux is very stable and will free you<br \/>\nfrom all those viruses\/malware and instabilities you have grown<br \/>\naccustomed to while using windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back, from a long break , more like I&#8217;ve been busy. Two articles caught my eyes this week First: The New Vision, a leading daily newspaper in Uganda reported that Microsoft has hired some lawyers in Kampala, to help them fight software piracy especially illegal copies of Windows. As rightly noted by the paper, very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}