{"id":413,"date":"2006-07-05T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T01:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better"},"modified":"2006-07-05T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T02:42:20","slug":"original-software-free-softwares-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better","title":{"rendered":"Original software? Free software&#8217;s better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After visiting the Canadian embassy to get myself a visa yesterday (yes, I&#8217;m going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxsymposium.org\/2006\/\">Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS)<\/a> &#8211; see you there?) I decided to take a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowyat.net\/\">Low Yat<\/a>, and the surrounding area to take a gander at computer hardware out there.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up picking up a bunch of disks and external casings, and a USB webcam (cheapest Logitech, I wonder if it&#8217;ll work with Linux &#8211; RM80 down, the salesman looked at me funny when I said Linux, but I have faith). Then I decided to scour the place for Microsoft Windows XP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/newsroom\/winxp\/08-10WinXPStarterFS.mspx\">Starter Edition<\/a>. To my dismay, I found it for sale, <strong><em>nowhere<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest I was going to get was a RM300 copy of Windows XP Home. However, most of the retailers were quite happy to point me to the RM5 <em>pirated<\/em> copy of Windows XP <em>Professional<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These pirate shops also sell Fedora Core 1, Ubuntu PowerPC edition, and more, for RM15\/CD. I wonder why Linux costs more than Windows?<\/p>\n<p>It brings me back to thinking about Software Freedom Day (maybe last year or the year before) where Aizat, Khairil and Ditesh stood at Low Yat and distributed free CDs, that were Ubuntu based. After all, Canonical do ship it for free, why not give it away for free?<\/p>\n<p>Malaysians love free gifts, and a Live CD, that can be installed and distributed, for free, just sounds like a winner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Original%20software%3F%20Free%20software%27s%20better&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2006%2F07%2F05%2Foriginal-software-free-softwares-better&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. You may need to create a new email yourself.\" data-email-share-nonce=\"1bba56a403\" data-email-share-track-url=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=email\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-413\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-413\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-413\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After visiting the Canadian embassy to get myself a visa yesterday (yes, I&#8217;m going to Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) &#8211; see you there?) I decided to take a trip to Low Yat, and the surrounding area to take a gander at computer hardware out there. I ended up picking up a bunch of disks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Original%20software%3F%20Free%20software%27s%20better&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2006%2F07%2F05%2Foriginal-software-free-softwares-better&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. You may need to create a new email yourself.\" data-email-share-nonce=\"1bba56a403\" data-email-share-track-url=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=email\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-413\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-413\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-413\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/original-software-free-softwares-better?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-6F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/23\/tabs-2","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":0},"title":"Tabs #2","date":"23\/6\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"PC Gemilang: Linux Outsells Windows - 7,000 Linux based boxes, with Fedora Core 1 pushed out. Not nearly the 100,000 that was expected, but... must find inspiration to place the design document up online at some stage. And Microsoft is going to offer Windows XP Starter Edition; no, we don't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":446,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/24\/boot-camp","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":1},"title":"Boot Camp","date":"24\/5\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It doesn't just work if you load up all the default software updates. The Boot Camp page is really useful, and pay particularly close attention to getting the latest firmware update. Don't just assume that SMC Version 1.2f10 is what you're after (in System Profiler) - download MacBook Pro (early\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/23\/is-butt-on-crack","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":2},"title":"Is Butt on crack?","date":"23\/3\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Cynthia Peterson has a fairly well-written article titled: \"Is Open Source Worth It?\", but what caught me as surprising is what Butt Wai Choon, the managing director of Microsoft Malaysia had to say about open source's place in this world: \"...There is always a place for OSS, and it\u2019s within\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1861,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/26\/mosync-2-4-pre-beta-available-with-some-juicy-new-features","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":3},"title":"MoSync 2.4 pre-beta available with some juicy new features","date":"26\/9\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was rather thrilled this past week to note that the team at MoSync have released 2.4-pre-beta, with support for not only Microsoft Windows XP\/Vista\/7, but also Apple Mac OS X 10.6. Goodbye Windows virtual machine, and hello native Mac app. Check out the release notes, and you'll also see\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1040,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/18\/microsoft-blackouts-software-freedom","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":4},"title":"Microsoft blackouts&#8230; Software Freedom","date":"18\/9\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you a user of Microsoft Windows? Are you a user of a non-licensed copy of Microsoft Windows? Does it happen to be Windows XP Professional? Have you seen \"blackouts\"? Apparently, from about the end of last month (August 27 2008, to be precise), users of pirated copies of Microsoft\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":473,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/17\/the-mysql-mugshot-group","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":5},"title":"The MySQL Mugshot Group","date":"17\/2\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't know how many of you actually have heard of, or use, Mugshot, but I just started playing with it after a long hiatus, and decided that it's pretty cool. Something the MySQL community will probably enjoy being part of (currently, to take full advantage, you want to be a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}