In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:37:37 +0100
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> Windows Vista's "Get Linux" Mode
>
> http://www.bumpbox.com/?p=143
Duh....and one wants to pay $249 for this mode precisely...why? :-)
>
> But here is the interesting part.
>
> Microsoft's Newest Piracy Plans
"Microsoft's Newest Piracy Plans"? Did they use that headline
deliberately? :-)
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | According to one estimate, right now Windows XP accounts for 85% of
> | all installed OSs. The same article cited above says that those 60
> | million copies that failed the Windows Genuine Advantage test were out
> | of 300 million that were checked in total. Combine these two numbers,
> | and that means that 20% of Windows XP's 85% share could be up for
> | grabs.
> `----
Plus the fact that a 20% failure rate is darned piss-poor performance,
in most industries. Could one imagine a manufacturing line discarding
a fifth of its finished product?
Yipes.
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> http://econball.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsofts-newest-piracy-plans.html
>
> If they check these figures in remote and poor places, the piracy figures
> (proportion) will be breathtaking.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4783041.stm
suggests Peru is a hotbed of counterfeit copies; among the
duplicated works are "Cars 2" and "Pirates of the Carribean"
(as of the time this was written, anyway.)
There is a story circulating in Peru, which could well
be true, that another Peruvian writer, the popular
Jaime Bayly, was waiting at traffic lights when black
marketeers offered him a pirate copy of one of his
own books.
Recognising the author from the photo on the back
cover, the vendor, without even pausing to blush,
offered him a discount.
Now *that's* chutzpah. :-) But there's no legitimate
market for music in Peru apparently; the illegals undercut
them by almost 98%.
Something's way out of whack.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FI16Ad07.html
suggests losses from counterfeiting activities may be
more than $50B if one includes losses from European and
Japanese works; American losses are about $20-$24B.
(Admittedly "loss" in this context is a bit illusory.)
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