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Posted in Asia, Deception, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Windows at 6:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Bill Gates told an interviewer last year that: “It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.”
In CNET, yesterday: Gates: Privacy a ‘challenge’ as software advances
Which way would it be, Microsoft? You need ‘piracy’, you encourage it, but then you whine about it, even imprison those who enable it (via the BSA and its ilk)? The hypocrisy is amazing.
Last year: Microsoft Exec Admits That Company Benefits From Piracy
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> Jeff Raikes, head of the company’s business group, said at a recent investor conference that while the company is against piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate Microsoft software. He cited the above reasoning, noting that users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from the company later on.
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This was covered here many times before. Microsoft’s accusations are directed at the very same people that make their products widespread. █
Correction: I read the CNET article as “piracy”. not “privacy”. However, it remains amazing that Microsoft cracks down on 'unlicensed'' GNU/Linux while turning a blind eye to illegal copies of Windows.
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