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Comment by psykovsky | Hacker News Reader

You know how you make linux work? Never install pirated versions of any software on someone else's computer. When you start talking about how much they have to pay to use windows and office legally they'll change their mind and use whatever you put in there.

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Never install pirated versions of software on any computer. It is simply not worth it.

That also, ofcourse. But on our own machines we can decide, and if you're like me, every computer in your house uses a flavour of Linux and you don't even think about pirated software or software licenses most of the time.

I hope that you at least think about donating back.

I know I do; I've bought every version of Slackware since I started using it a couple years ago (which, granted, has been, like, three versions, but still). I've also bought a few OpenBSD CD sets, though I've slacked off a bit lately.

I donate my time to various open source projects, translating.

If I set up someone's computer for them they get only programs for which they have licenses and FOSS stuff.

I don't usually get asked to set up computers more than once :)

I love when it gets to the part where they ask me how to download a youtube video as mp3 and I introduce them to youtube-dl, the terminal and a bit of .bash_aliases magic to make the youtube-dl command a bit easier. Their face: priceless =)

Yeah I would not show someone that! I wouldn't open up a friend to the copyright trolls...

Office starter edition is enough for the vast majority of users.

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