Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:14:14 +0200, Richard Rasker wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Piracy as a core business strategy
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>>>| Piracy is a way to drive adoption. Obviously, piracy only works if
>>>| someone cares about your product in the first place (otherwise, why
>>>| would they bother stealing it?).
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/27/xp_nagware/
>>
>> "Microsoft has previously claimed that XP is more pirated than any other
>> operating system.
>>
>> Well, that's not really hard, now is it? OS X has too small a market
>> share, and Linux can't be pirated at all.
>>
>> And this one gave me a chuckle:
>>
>> "It reckons that the counterfeit rate for Vista is less than half that
>> of
>> XP, it would be below us to suggest that even the pirates have a hard
>> time selling Vista."
>>
>> Well, perhaps if the pirates started selling upgrade rights to XP with
>> their Vista knock-offs, they'd be more succesful ;-)
>>
>>>| But perhaps it's a compelling strategy
>>>| for some? It certainly seems to work for Microsoft in emerging markets
>>>| like China....
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10028027-16.html
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>>
>>
>> Richard Rasker
>
> Yet Linux is free everyday of the year and still can't manage to get above
> 1 percent or so on the desktop.
Actually, recent estimates are more in the region of 2 percent and
increasing steadily.
> That's pretty sad considering Linux has been around for 15+ years.....
That's not too bad considering that well over 95% of desktop computers on
offer have Windows preinstalled.
Richard Rasker
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