I would suggest that MS owes a significant chunk of its' success to software piracy. People use, and get used to, what they can get for free. Piracy is just another path that leads to MS.
If you're interested, there's a MS beta program called "Live Mesh" that I could see evolving into a distribution system for leased software. I'm doing beta testing for it, and it's slick, if a little bumpy. All your computing devices sharing files and eventually programs via the Cloud. Cool idea. If anyone here is in on the beta and would like to test application distribution with me, let me know. David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Wolper Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft is planning to go to a subscription service for its software > Microsoft is planning to go to a subscription service for its software > instead of selling boxed packages, May 2008 > http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/224866/ >From the article: "There is one other big benefit to the subscription system for software, and it is an important one: It ends software piracy. A major producer like Microsoft loses an estimated 15 percent to 20 percent of potential sales to pirated copies. Those days will be over; if there are no disks, there are no disks to copy." I never realized that disks were the key to piracy. -Jerry Wolper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
