You are assuming the people were accustomed to, or at least had heard of the open source alternatives before turning to piracy. Usually that isn't the case. I don't think people accustomed to open source software turn to pirating their commercial alternatives that often.

Is that 1200-1300 befor or after taxes? That 2500 euro/month pretty much turns into 1250 euros after income tax, pensions and whatnots

It's progressive but it seems that for the average income (~2500 euros/month) it would be about 29%

Yeah, except that we do too :P

Eh, sissies. 22% on most of the stuff we buy here in Finland.

You must be new around here.

You're linking to a tutorial on ubuntu 7.04, the parent is talking of 7.10. Usually in slashdot we at least rtfu(url) we're posting :)

Are you saying that the linux adoption rate is declining? Really?

If Microsoft (not sure about apple) took that attitude, people would just blame Nvidia for crappy gfx cards/drivers. Or they would beat their monitors to death.

Why not just install ubuntu 9.04 then?

What's wrong with jack? To the extent I've used it (plugged in a guitar and mucked around with effects etc.), it seems to work as advertised. Is it lacking in some critical way?

I've never done any meaningful media production work but I'm curious.

I consider myself a geek so I cant be sure of the others but I would believe that the same holds true for pretty much every niche out there.

The big console companies make their money selling games, not hardware. If free mobile games were to become big, it could eat a big chunk of their revenue. Almost like microsoft releasing something like linux because that's what the users want :)

Virtually all keywords have either a jump or a fall right before christmas (see hygiene for a fall, don't ask me why).

It would be alot cooler to carry one big flash drive with a boot loader and many partitions containing the bootable images. Well, your afraid of the flash getting corrupted, carry two.

Not that I do that, I tried but failed miserably at doing so. Does anyone know of an easy way of accomplishing this? Something as simple as this shouldn't be so hard to do :)