On 5/7/08, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
the MS anti-trust agreements are public, and neither in the US nor in
the EU do they require MS not to engage in differential pricing for
other jurisdictions, or even for different target markets in different
jurisdictions. MS does a lot of the latter
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 08:07 +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
The explanation I got from a Microsoft rep was that as a result of
anti-trust regulations, they were not at liberty to offer special
pricing without approval from their anti-trust lawyers in the US.
this is true. but this is
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:40 +0300, ashok _ wrote:
Is this a valid argument about microsoft being automatically
excluded from eu procurements because of the EU ruling ? :
no.
that push from the european greens to ban MS from eu procurement comes
across as mean-spirited and unfair to MS. with
On Monday 05 May 2008, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
[snip]
I wish I could elaborate based on what I know given what I'm doing
these days, but all I can say is: you're off on the wrong tangent.
Oh man, now you're just teasing us.
-Taj.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 05 May 2008, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
[snip]
I wish I could elaborate based on what I know given what I'm doing
these days, but all I can say is: you're off on the wrong tangent.
Oh man, now you're
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:17 +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
I wish I could elaborate based on what I know given what I'm doing
these days, but all I can say is: you're off on the wrong tangent.
the MS anti-trust agreements are public, and neither in the US nor in
the EU do they require MS
On 07-May-08, at 2:47 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
if MS did have lower prices in some countries, they could face
pressure
from more consumers in rich countries, shocked that the software is
available at lower prices elsewhere. this, plus the difficulty of
enforcing price differentiation in
On 05-May-08, at 7:52 AM, ss wrote:
Microsoft software is as expensive as jewellery for the vast
majority of
Indians. I haven't checked prices recently but the cost of a Vista
Home Basic
is well over the monthly average salary in India.
I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been
On Monday 05 May 2008 12:48:46 pm Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been trying (more or
less
successfully) to tell people that they are human and therefore
different
from animals, and that they should therefore respect IPR and
copyright
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing
licenses gratis.
uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer
is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works
so
On 5/5/08, va wrote:
What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing
licenses gratis.
uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer
is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works
so well.
they peddle a $3 license
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:51 +0530, ss wrote:
When this system comes into contact with grabbing hungry animals, the animals
actually, indians (or brazilians) may be hungrier than americans, but
they are hardly less animal in this colourful language.
some years ago, i wrote a paper [1]
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux
_
Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the
adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. It's clear that Brazil is
enamored with Linux, but why? This is an important question for
Microsoft since emerging
On Sunday 04 May 2008 10:12:43 pm Gautam John wrote:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux
any hope of widespread computer access, then surely we can't expect
people to spend 7.8% of their annual income on Microsoft software
snip
When I was growing up in Brazil, paying
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