Are you referring to his statements in a forum with students in the University of Washington where he said:
Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Check it out at http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html I think this philosophy is not unique to him. Ask the drug lords in South America. ;) Personally, I don't see any evil in what he's doing. It only makes good business sense. Iba pa din ang pilosopiya nitong si Mr. Gates. On 3/16/07, Dax Solomon Umaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There was an article I read somewhere regarding Microsoft's strategy on Piracy. Their official stand would remain "No to Piracy!" and "Let the Business Software Alliance handle Media Piracy". But if you take a look at it, BSA and OMB ain't that active in raids. Sometimes they would go for months without any raids. Microsoft wanted piracy, of course it will affect their desktop market but they're really aiming at the SME's and Large Enterprises because they could milk them for millions of dollars. They wanted desktop piracy to thrive in the 3rd world countries because if people are used to a pirated MS products, they will demand an MS product for the company they're working for. If you're an HR guy, you'll know what I mean. I'm in call center industry, and guess what, OSS compentency is non-existent. ITD may prefer OSS, but the production floor won't tolerate it. The company then would have no choice but to buy millions of dollars worth of licenses from Microsoft due to the demand from their employees. This article was actually flamed and the author was passed as a conspiracy theorist. I'll be searching for that link so you can read it. -- Dax Solomon Umaming http://knightlust.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: 0xEDE9C473 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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