Software Piracy Due to Expensive Hardware, Says Ballmer

frdmfghtr writes "ZDNet is running a story where Steve Ballmer tries to pin the blame of software copyright infringement on expensive hardware: 'One way to stem piracy is to offer consumers in emerging countries a low-cost PC, Ballmer said. "There has to be...a $100 computer to go down-market in some of these countries. We have to engineer (PCs) to be lighter and cheaper," he said.' Does he think that cheaper hardware will make copying software harder to do?"

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Re:Wow.

[Shotgun]

What I find suprising is that so many in the /. crowd can so easily see the fault in Balmer's argument, while totally ignoring those in Kerry's "I'll get France to help" line.

All the talk on here about wanting substance over presentation, and yet you find it so funny to attack Bush for the latter? There are a lots of reasons to disagree with Bush (John 'all your civil liberties are belong to us' Ashcroft being at the head of the list), but at least on /., oral presentation should not be one of them.