Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> microsoft has a very clearly thought out strategy with regard to > 'piracy' - hook em on the illegal stuff, and after they are hooked, > get em to pay. Which is why they dont raid educational institutions, > computer training institutes and private homes. MS spent a decade or so in China learning this lesson. I'm sure it is documented thoroughly inside the company. You get a glimpse of this sometimes, especially when Bill Gates himself says: "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not" (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/) PJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
