On 3/4/07, Bob Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Such pirating will probably come to an end with the protective mechanisms of Windows Vista. (Personally, I think that this marks the beginning of the end of Microsoft. Allowing a certain amount of piracy was part of the secret of their success, related to the essential characteristic of wide distribution and fame.)
Was falling into that same dream that Vista had ended piracy and that would bring the PC world to a watershed moment of deciding to Buy or go Unix. Was bought back to reality just yesterday when talking to a work colleague who mentioned he was on Vista. The first 'real' Vista user I've met. He was enjoying it and only had a couple of compatibility problems. When I asked him if he thought it was going to markedly reduce the piracy in the local computer malls, he just smiled. Turns out he's been using a pirated copy of Vista since day 1! So apart from the 'developers' on this List who I assume are using legal copies, 100% of the 'home users' I've met using Vista are using Pirated copies (you can argue anything with statistics;-) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
