Microsoft got their ass handed to them there - they've been saying how open source hinders innovation - that bug would have been fixed less than a week after it was discovered.
Piracy doesn't do anything but give M$ a smaller ego and less money. They spend countless dollars in R&D to create DRM and other anti-piracy movements like this - all time that could be spent on fixing their poorly constructed products, such as Vista. It is their own actions that are "damaging software innovation".
Take a look at the free software and open source communities and how quickly they are advancing. Innovating through community effort. By this standard, "piracy" would be promoting innovation, not hindering it.
Paper money is being used less and less. Yes, I'll never want to give up carrying around some cash in my pocket (especially since I don't want the credit card companies tracking every purchase I make), but because more and more people are using credit cards or some type of alternative to cash, I do not see the point in spending the hundreds of millions (dare I say billions) of dollars in time, equipment and people in order to make such a drastic switch when they can use a very simple alternative. This would have been an excellent idea earlier, but I think it's a bit late.
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Microsoft got their ass handed to them there - they've been saying how open source hinders innovation - that bug would have been fixed less than a week after it was discovered.
Piracy doesn't do anything but give M$ a smaller ego and less money. They spend countless dollars in R&D to create DRM and other anti-piracy movements like this - all time that could be spent on fixing their poorly constructed products, such as Vista. It is their own actions that are "damaging software innovation". Take a look at the free software and open source communities and how quickly they are advancing. Innovating through community effort. By this standard, "piracy" would be promoting innovation, not hindering it.
Paper money is being used less and less. Yes, I'll never want to give up carrying around some cash in my pocket (especially since I don't want the credit card companies tracking every purchase I make), but because more and more people are using credit cards or some type of alternative to cash, I do not see the point in spending the hundreds of millions (dare I say billions) of dollars in time, equipment and people in order to make such a drastic switch when they can use a very simple alternative. This would have been an excellent idea earlier, but I think it's a bit late.
Sounds like a Bush campaign.