"If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From Us!" - Microsoft Exec

[greylica]

Why all of proprietary software products is pirated so fast ?
They always expect enterprises to do so, in a way they can sue them. But the armadillo is being disabled by people who don't believe anymore in their goodness. These statements are not a surprise here in Brazil. This is a Modus Operandi of Microsoft and other enterprises of closed software, and it's a bad addicted circle.
Extinguishing the piracy = the end of the proprietary software wrong Modus Operandi.
They depend on piracy to train the masses with low costs and make them dependent, to sell software at higher prices to enterprises instead of making products accessible to population at normal competition prices.

 

[aidanjm]

mathematical modelling indicates that windows piracy is probably of benefit to M$ by helping Windows maintain market share against linux, presumably because using even a pirated windows OS supports the windows os "ecology" and prevents people from adopting linux. Altho ultimately M$ will be forced to either give Windows away or drastically reduce it's prices to stay competitive against linux in the long term.

 

[hasu]

Reason to use Linux may not be just the price. It is becoming more and more so every few months.

 

[greylica]

Originally posted by: hasu
Reason to use Linux may not be just the price. It is becoming more and more so every few months.

Yes, this is very good, share information and the liberty to suggest or modify things that are disgusting you, more and more, honest people feel that they are invaded in their lives, having to report things that are related only to themselves.