[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
> [some creative restructuring]
>
> Cause:
>
>> Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
>
> Effect:
>
>> Russian Linux (ALTLinux) to be installed in every school in Russia
>
>> Chairs will break in Redmond now.
>
> Oops.
>
> The harder Microsoft push people, the harder those people push back.
> Bullying tactics just don't work, as Apple also recently discovered.
>
Nor should they. Microsoft rely on being able to bribe governments into
bullying people to do what they want, but the exposure of this practice
has been so great now that it's becoming much harder to get away with.
Except in the UK, of course, where the BBC with Mr Highfield and company
continue the same corrupt approach.
There are good previous examples, though, like the levy on blank tapes
and CDs in France and Canada, the money going to the recording
companies. The government, in those cases, is taxing directly on behalf
of mostly foreign businesses.
It's hard to believe that such laws could ever have made it to the
statute books.
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