arstechnica.com — Microsoft group president Jeff Raikes told an audience in San Francisco last week that the company hopes people, if they?re going to pirate software, choose to pirate Microsoft software. What?s Raikes thinking?
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brickguyMar 13, 2007
Microsoft wouldnt be as big as they are if it wasn't so easy for the world to "steal" their software. They make it easy on purpose, with the guise of "we are against piracy". Just take the Atari GEM operating system as a specific example of great operating systems that died because they implemented too strict of copy protection countermeasures.
groovepapaMar 13, 2007
OMG! M$ must be communists! :-)
redlionMar 14, 2007
isn't this a dupe of <a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/software/Microsoft_Exec_Admits_That_Company_Still_Benefits_From_Piracy">http://www.digg.com/software/Microsoft_Exec_Admits_That_Company_Still_Benefits_From_Piracy</a> (reached the frontpage today)?
hackeraceMar 14, 2007
So I should buy Microsoft unless I'm going to install free software in which case I should pirate the Microsoft software so that I can later register it? Now I'm confused... If I'm am going to install Microsoft because I was originally going to install the free stuff than why wouldn't Microsoft just give me the software to start with? Of course if they give me the software than I would not have to buy it so they make me obtain the software from illegal channels. This of course opens my up to being exploited by nefarious individuals or organizations. Now I'm even more confused. I think I'll just stick with the free stuff.