Thanks again, Microsoft!
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| The first big favour Microsoft did to the Linux community was to delay
| Windows Vista over and over (and over) again. That put into highlight some
| Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. Not that it was the only reason, of
| course but it did help a lot. Ubuntu got many deals, in special with Dell,
| selling per-installed Ubuntu systems to the general public.
|
| Now it’s even better! They’re (thinking of) using a black screen of death
| security system that if your copy is not legal it’ll lock your computer and
| die.
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http://systemcall.org/2007/09/20/thanks-again-microsoft/
Copyright Insanity
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| Given the lackluster market response to Windows Vista, wouldn’t you think
| that they would be less strict with restrictions?
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http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/06/24/copyright-insanity/
Related:
Microsoft has gone greedy and insane.
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| In an e-mail to a large Windows Vista OEM distributor titled "Pirated Vista -
| A darkness descends!", a local Microsoft representative made it quite clear
| what Vista pirates can expect to happen to their unlicensed installations.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft's new tough anit-piracy move also proves the company still controls
| its software releases with an iron fist, but it marks the first global use of
| heavy-handed tactics for pirated copies of Windows.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1029262671&rid=-50
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
|
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, 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."[1]
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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