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____/ Homer on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 00:55 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that JeffM spake thusly:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> OK, let's try Windows.
>>> What is the best Windows?
>>
>> I've heard good things about TinyXP.
>> It's much less bloated than the ones straight from Redmond.
>> No remote kill switches / activation.
>> You get it off BitTorrent so M$ doesn't get any money from it
>> which they could then use in yet more scummy ways.
>
> In fact Microsoft do benefit from piracy, in exactly the same way they
> benefit from dumping "products" (i.e. licenses) at a loss (assuming it
> is even possible to make a loss on something so ethereal, which can be
> reproduced virtually for nothing, as "permission to use"). The purpose
> of dumping (and the benefit of piracy) is market saturation, which has
> the short-term effect of excluding competition at a loss, but the long
> -term effect of ensuring market dominance, which assures the continued
> survival of the company, increased profits, and little need to rely on
> marketing or product improvement, in the absence of any competition.
>
> It's a deeply cynical business development method that favours attacks
> on the competition over self-improvement. Why improve oneself when one
> can simply destroy others, thus becoming "improved" by default?
>
>
> "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than
> somebody else" ~ Jeff Raikes, former Microsoft Business Group president.
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000211
>
>
> "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours." ~
> Bill Gates
>
> http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-212942.html
Another one that's very recent:
"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy
than when there's not."
--Bill Gates
> "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to make
> sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
>
> http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
>
>
> All that remains is to maintain that dominance, by suppressing others'
> attempts to (re)enter the market. Microsoft accomplishes this in three
> ways: Lobbying, propaganda, and exclusive contracts. In this way their
> monopoly is protected by a closed-shop system, comprising partners and
> other paid agents persuaded to exclusively promote the Microsoft stack
> ... criticising and rejecting everything else. The result is consumers
> are inundated with pro-Microsoft propaganda on the one hand and denied
> access to competing technology on the other. IOW, Microsoft is engaged
> in racketeering, and is tolerant of those who don't pay the protection
> money, because non-payers nonetheless help support the ecosystem which
> protects Microsoft's racket.
>
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