This can only hurt MS. Of course they will try this coercion method, it's what they 'have to do' to show threy're being tough on piracy. MS probably knows this wont work but will anyway just to stay on the anti-piracy bandwagon; it's the 'right thing to do' from a corporate perspective. Anyway, those smart enough to steal windows are also smart enough to avoid windows programs such as Internet Explorer like the plague. Open source is the future of PC applications and MS should embrace it instead of whining. MS is an OS provider, not an OS dictator; the quicker MS realises this, the quicker people might actually consider paying for it.
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This can only hurt MS. Of course they will try this coercion method, it's what they 'have to do' to show threy're being tough on piracy. MS probably knows this wont work but will anyway just to stay on the anti-piracy bandwagon; it's the 'right thing to do' from a corporate perspective. Anyway, those smart enough to steal windows are also smart enough to avoid windows programs such as Internet Explorer like the plague. Open source is the future of PC applications and MS should embrace it instead of whining. MS is an OS provider, not an OS dictator; the quicker MS realises this, the quicker people might actually consider paying for it.