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 -- [email protected] 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/[email protected]/
