[ilugd] Shiver me timbers!
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jul2007/id20070725_504325.htm?campaign_id=yhoo Henry Chesbrough has an insightful look at why piracy is generally good for MS in India. I suspect most of the people on the mailing list knew it already, and see it as the main reason why linux has been relatively slow in taking off in India. But it is good to see mainstream media tackling something that seems counter- intuitive in an economically sound way. 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/
Re: [ilugd] Shiver me timbers!
On 31-Jul-07, at 12:35 PM, PJ wrote: Henry Chesbrough has an insightful look at why piracy is generally good for MS in India. 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. I suspect most of the people on the mailing list knew it already, and see it as the main reason why linux has been relatively slow in taking off in India. Incidently, foss is more expensive to deploy than microsoft stuff even if there was no piracy. It is not the price - it is the quality that drives foss deployment. 'Piracy' has very little to do with it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Shiver me timbers!
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/
