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Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates"
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in US Federal courts as part of an effort to stop those who continually pirate its software. The suits span 14 states and target people and businesses that have allegedly sold pirated copies of Microsoft software. Eight of the suits target companies that Microsoft refers to as 'repeat offender software pirates.' The eight firms had already been sued by Microsoft for selling counterfeit software."
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Microsoft Goes After "Butt Pirates"
I was curious about Mac and it's products, but that was short lived until I entered the Apple store and saw the bloated prices.
Good for laughs, good for posing, bad for me ! Linux is still my favorite .
are you too fucking stupid to see who they're targeting? what a bitch. you probably want to be fucked in the ass by ron jeremy next. go back to sucking linux dicks.
There be a fine line between piracy and bootlegging.
In all honesty, I would bet that piracy has ACCOUNTED for much of Microsoft's success. Everyone you know (I'm talking about the average folks out there, not /.ers) uses windows...so you get a computer with windows.
Adobe can basically attribute its success to 2 things: colleges teach adobe products in VT programs and students pirate them to get good at using them.
But piracy in the workplace? Learn to internets and get some FOSS, ya cheap fuckers.
THL phish sticks
Whooooooosh
Probably because you can't do as much on Linux no matter how much hardware you throw at it. Fro the average computer user Linux is not a the most basic viable option. There is not enough POPULAR, supported software available on Linux. You can't really play anything but the most basic or old 3D games on Linux.
Support for the OS and for the apps is non-existent or very expensive, unless you want to go to some online forum where a bunch of amateurs spend more time showing you how smart they are and how stupid you are. The typical answer to a question being that "man is your best friend" or some such nonsense. I am VERY computer savvy and man pages are of little to no use.
So yes, you can have a 3D accelerated GUI on Linux with less hardware. But no matter what you run you won't have a diverse set of popular and well supported applications. Sorry, good idea that is amateurishly implemented.
Actually I'm pretty sure I've made this clear but you might have missed it. I'm a Microsoft MVP award winner since like 2000 or something like that. I get a free MSDN subscription for helping people with their problems via my site and sometimes their newsgroups. So, well, barring your obvious attempts to be disruptive...
I bet a lot more people would be really friggen pissed if they had to drive to Florida for an orange or if they paid the full total travel cost for the entire load of grapes from California. You buy in bulk you get a discount. You apply for OEM status and you can sell at a lesser cost and increase your profits.
Don't mistake me for a zealot. Nor one you can convert as you probably can't name an OS I don't or haven't had to use.
I bet a lot more people would make an informed choice if they wanted to. I bet your flawed echonomics (spelling intentional) is based on something so "slowed" (Sabrina says I have to stop calling people retarded) would result in the complete collapse of the world market. You buy in bulk and you get it cheaper. Why? Less handling cost, move efficient to produce in bulk, etc... Come back when you've taken a simple Economy 101 course and while you're in the course try to learn.
Oh, and how much would you like to bet? Or, better still, why do you think that that is NOT typically the target of anti-trust suits? (Hint: It fails simple basic economics. Anti-trust is when they offer lower prices AND offer them additional benefits or an agreement that they can only offer the one and nothing else and then still, as I understand it, must show evidence of a monopoly. Do note that OEM pricing has not, and is not, a consideration in this regards. Pushing for a change simply because you are eager for one team to win is just plain silly in my opinion. Linux has its place and I, for one, love it dearly but do try to be rational, please? You give the rest of us a bad name.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
LOL.
This is hilarious. and bullshit.
So tell me genius, how many millions have YOU made on the principle of making top quality software that can compete with commercial products, which your economic genius has told you must be given away free?
Feel free to link to the financial data for your company.
Or.. (shock horror!) are you another armchair economist who has a day job / student course, yet somehow thinks he knows better than the multimillionaires and billionaires who run the worlds top software companies?
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