Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED** What I wanted to know, was answered. I am not interested anymore. THANKS TO ALL

[nepal]

On Sunday 30 Nov 2008, Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008 9:33:31 pm Steven Vollom
> wrote: <snip>
>
> > I had two motivations in this post; neither are
> > something I am proud of.
> >
> > I wanted a way to avoid giving Microsoft any more money
> > and still use what I wanted from them.  Additionally, I
> > wanted to download a movie I didn't pay for.  Neither
> > reason is worthy of publishing.
>
> <snip>
>
> I don't judge you for those.  I don't do them (I used
> to), but I can understand some reasoning behind doing the
> things you mention.  However, please allow me to
> encourage you (if you're not doing this already) and
> anyone else interested to at the very least check out
> alternative sources.  You're already using Linux and, by
> your act of asking questions and making suggestions,
> contributing, so that's a good thing.  However, there is
> music and other art released under the Creative Commons
> or similar licensing and some of it is very good.  Movies
> cost a lot to make, but some of the best movies are made
> independently of the big studios and are more worthy of
> handing over a little of your hard-earned money for.  And
> I can guarantee you that somewhere in your area, there's
> a group of amateur actors and film crew hopefuls making
> little films that will show in an art house for free. 
> And if you want to see something neat and also free,
> search the web for the 48 Hour Film Project.  It's a
> contest where a group of people who are interested in
> trying it get together and are given 48 hours to write,
> rehearse and film a short.  Go through the winners - they
> are only a few minutes long each and amazing.  (And as a
> theatre person, I have to mention that community theatre
> can be fun and fairly cheap and much more intimate than a
> movie.)
>
> Anyway, I wonder if you misunderstood me in my previous
> message.  I only meant that a thread we start can take
> life even when we're through with it and others can learn
> from it.

Constantinos,

A big thankyou for the info above, I will be checking it out 
later today. I had wondered what creative commons was, I 
was thinking it was something to do with the uk government 
spin machine ;)

When I used to watch tv, Chanel 4 used to show little short 
films of the type you mention and some of the great modern 
directors like Shane Meadows started this way.

Thanks

nepal.