A. It's "micros~1", not "micro~1".
B. It can backfire on them, just like it did in the US in the education
market. The more people pay retail price for each and every license, the
less attractive basing MS solution is compared to alternatives, the less
solid their Monopoly becomes, the less money they can make.
There is a ballance here. I think the whole BSA thing is that MS thinks
that they now hold enough of the market to consider each and every
license stolen as a license lost. This move /only/ makes sense if their
monopoly is unbudgable (nothing in the world will eliminate it). It may
have nothing to do with it. It may be just that they have reached the
end of the rope in terms of getting money via the usual channels, and
being blocked away from moving to their logical next stage (license
software, .Net, etc) because of bad customer acceptance and court battles.
Either way, scare tactics create the image of a bully, creating
antagonizm, which is never a good thing with people you expect to get
money from. Think how many gleeful MS bashers are on this list who could
otherwise be writing software running on Windows, using Windows, and
creating more demand for Windows.
What I'm trying to say is that, yes, it is costing them money. The only
question is whether it is costing them more money than it is getting
them. Personally, I think so. There are so many companies you can push
around for so long, but bad feelings are almost forever.
Shachar
Peleg Wasserman wrote:
> I wonder why am I not surprised.
> Is there a way that it can backfire at them?
>
> -Peleg.
>
> At 18:23 23/05/2002 +0300, Eliran wrote:
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> Some time ago, I have read an email from someone (don't remember the
>> name)
>> says he received an email from you-know-who telling him he got
>> illegal m$
>> software or something in this style.
>>
>> Here is something I saw in YNet:
>> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1891529,00.html
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eliran
>>
>>
>> --
>> <a href="http://eg-site.tripod.com";>Eliran</a>
>>
>> The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of
>> slander on the poor.
>> -- H. L. Mencken
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