On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 15:30 +0530, openbala wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > > do not forget that microsoft encourages piracy - 'first let them get > it > > free and then make them pay' > > Oh, you don't have to praise Microsoft so much! You're implying as if > Microsoft knows how to stop piracy and willingly doesn't want to do it > :-D
I am not joking - it is microsoft policy to encourage piracy. That is well known. That is why they only raid now and then - they want people to use pirated versions, get addicted and then catch them and make them pay. Bill Gates once said: 'millions of chinese are now using windows - now we have to get them to pay for it'. > > On a serious note, last time I inquired about pirated copies of > Windows Vista (it was a year back) in Ritchie street and Burma bazaar > - No one had it. They said police were very particular about cracking > down pirated copies of Windows and there was pressure from 'central' > govt on this. Not sure whats the state of Windows piracy now. a friend of mine was offered windows 7 pirated in Richie street two months back. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
