On Sunday 06 March 2005 13:31, p cooper wrote: > coming into this a bit late - sorry > its not very straightforward. The first TP will be when the > opposition cant ignore you. With MS this will be when they > significantly drop their business prices. IMO they aren't > bothered about piracy for home use - keeps the workers tied to > MS products and keeps the TCO argument in their favour. > the main TP will be when business users don't give the money to > MS. Thats a much harder battle, particularly when the business > price has come down and the TCO/training issues is tilted > towards MS because business users take software home 'for free' . > Also Where I work MS have a home software initiative and I could > buy a licensed copy of MS office for £18 ( but it doenst run on > gentoo linux ;-)
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