On 12/15/20 5:58 PM, R C wrote: > When was the last time a large company (think IBM, Sun, Novell Netware, > Oracle) had a great idea to create or take over an OS, or a community > only ending up in a situation that only almost killed them. (Yeah MS, > but they figured out that giving it away for next to nothing for > residential/educational use is actually securing their market share in > commercial/government/Education etc etc etc.)
10-15 years ago BSA sued a person using pirated Windows (and Office?) at home. Microsoft representative was a witness AGAINST BSA, so that there is no precedent that private users of pirated software can be sued, because out of fear majority of those using pirated software would stop installing and using MS software and they would recommend software of competition (free if possible). If MS did not "fail to implement" effective protection from pirating Windows and Office, their market share would be at least halved, and in countries with low income they would barely exist. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
