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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Insults Its Customers: Compares Them to Criminals

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Microsoft Not Sure If SaaS Will Cut Piracy

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| Microsoft has been increasing its efforts to battle software piracy using 
| lawsuits and educational programs to bring more illegal users into the light. 
| But as Microsoft moves toward delivering more applications as services, its 
| anti-piracy tactics will also have to change, according to solution 
| providers.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| "It is too early to speak to the possibility of [Software Plus Services] 
| being abused, or speculate on whether or not it will have a positive impact 
| on software piracy," said Cori Hartje, senior director of Microsoft's Genuine 
| Software Initiative, in an e-mail interview with ChannelWeb.   
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http://www.crn.com/software/210100364

"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than
when there's not."               ^

                                --Bill Gates, last year


Related:

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


Recent:

Intel & Microsoft Killed the $100 Laptop

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| The article points that the stand taken by Intel and Microsoft is similar to
| the stand by large drug companies who, instead of working for the illnesses
| that plague the poor, (such as malaria) choose to focus on low-volume,
| high-margin drugs for cancer, heart ailments and diabetes.
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http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Intel_Microsoft_Killed_the_100_Laptop/551-92095-581.html


Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far

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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
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