What ever they are trying is not going to work. Why? As I has said before on this list *most* of the people in Asia (yeah that includes India) can get a copy of windows for free(as in piracy) or as low as a 10 cents. And there is also this craze to run the *very Latest*. as you guys may have read earlier windows longhorn (or was it 2003) beta was already being sold even before the official release. probably they could try to force businesses to be 100% complient with their licenses but that would work in favor of Open Source too. http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh
so either way its a losing war for Microsoft in Asia and South America(Brazil). -- Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Richards Jr, Edward C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:14 -0600 Subject: [brlug-general] Microsoft readies XP-Lite to keep Linux out of Asia > Interesting read. > > http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&newsid=1002 > > This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or > disclosure of included information by unintended recipients is > strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or authorized > to receive and / or act on information sent to a named recipient, or > have reason to believe you are not or should not be one of the named > recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply email and > delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or > otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For > information regarding the export control status of items discussed > in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ------- End of Original Message -------
