Well if it does hold some merit than it just goes to show that the declining revenues seen by the industry are related more to the product they are putting out rather than loss of CD sales to P2P downloading.
In any case the industry is still looking the wrong way when it comes to revitalizing their business model and as they are so quick to jump to conclusions concerning P2P I hope it bites them in the ass in the long run as I think it will.
I think Chris Farley said it best with "I could take a dump in a box and mark it Blink 182, I have spare time"
I'm glad adding product activation brought down the prices of my Windows OS and allowed me to design and migrat emore of my companies systems to Microsoft Products.
Pfffffft . . ..
WPA, is the downfall of Windows market share. If Microsoft wants to keep it's share of the market it's gonna have to rethink the whole activation of all it's products. As soon as a WPA version comes out thats not as easily hacked as the old one you will see people moving to OSS in droves. The simple fact is that once you take the ability to copy and use a piece of software away from the public you will kill your market share. I think MS was better off when people were able to copy W2K CD's and install them at will. I've dealt with companies of 200+ Windows Nodes that haven't moved to XP/2K3 because of this. Maybe MS didn't make 200+ sales of Windows 2K here but 20 is better than nothing.
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Well if it does hold some merit than it just goes to show that the declining revenues seen by the industry are related more to the product they are putting out rather than loss of CD sales to P2P downloading.
:)
In any case the industry is still looking the wrong way when it comes to revitalizing their business model and as they are so quick to jump to conclusions concerning P2P I hope it bites them in the ass in the long run as I think it will.
I think Chris Farley said it best with "I could take a dump in a box and mark it Blink 182, I have spare time"
. . . or something like that
Even Microsoft beleives OSS increases security. W2K source code leaked my ass.
I knew they wouldn't finish on time
I'm glad adding product activation brought down the prices of my Windows OS and allowed me to design and migrat emore of my companies systems to Microsoft Products.
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Pfffffft . . .
WPA, is the downfall of Windows market share. If Microsoft wants to keep it's share of the market it's gonna have to rethink the whole activation of all it's products. As soon as a WPA version comes out thats not as easily hacked as the old one you will see people moving to OSS in droves. The simple fact is that once you take the ability to copy and use a piece of software away from the public you will kill your market share. I think MS was better off when people were able to copy W2K CD's and install them at will. I've dealt with companies of 200+ Windows Nodes that haven't moved to XP/2K3 because of this. Maybe MS didn't make 200+ sales of Windows 2K here but 20 is better than nothing.