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 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 etc.
But in the real world, humans are also animals - they are no
different.
Shiv,
You have to realise that Microsoft is a recognised monopoly and
subject to anti-trust regulation in the US and Europe. This means they
*cannot* license their software at different rates around the world
(unless as part of a scheme that their lawyers clear as being non-
discriminatory, which is how retail and OEM licenses are
differentiated).
