"Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"

[Tommy Trussell]

On 8/29/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows users
> are held hostage by the fact that they don't normally have a real
> Windows CD, but rather only an OEM-supplied one (if that!) that's
> specific to their machine and has all the crapware preinstalled.

theoretically... but according to this writer --
http://articles.tlug.jp/Windows_Is_Free -- the fact that "cracked"
versions of Windows are readily and widely available is a major reason
people don't even bother installing linux. So his premise is that
Microsoft's market dominance actually DEPENDS upon pirated software.