On 14/02/2010 4
0 AM, Alias wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>> Enjoy! I know I did!
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5242
>
> Why would that affect me? I suppose you have some proof for this libel?
> No? Everyone act really surprised so Frank doesn't feel bad. Be sure and
> download the "update" like a good like MS sheeple and I hope all your
> computers are flagged with false positives.
Actually, the worst offenders of this are probably Microsoft supporters
and techs themselves. Your average home user is highly unlikely a
pirate. I even once saw a W2000 ISO imange before you could buy it.
You know, the MS family home boy comes over to clean up a PC and uses a
license on the target list. And of course the mass marketing rip off
that goes on in Asia and elsewhere.
It is supposed to be against the law to sell the same products at
different prices to different groups. An anti-trust violation actually.
But somehow Microsoft gets away with this, Taiwan and Peking pricing
isn't the same a in the US. Ditto other countries. The more protection
Microsoft has, the higher the price. Cost to produce has noting to do
with the Microsoft model.
How does the above fit in? A truly locked down licensing, no Chinaman is
going to pay over a $1000++ for the full Microsoft OS/Office etc. So
Microsoft sells to them at a different pricing than you or I. Yep,
anti-trust as it is favoring one customer over another.
And for decades Microsoft has gotten away with this.
I found out how Microsoft closed one environment I was exposed to that
would ordianrily run lots of open source and freeware. In a nut shell,
Microsoft droped the price to $12 for everything.
So when people go shopping for Microsoft software, know you are being
discriminated against when you are paying the US retail rates.