This is good news.
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| cr Feb 20, 2006 8:23 AM EDT |
The 'pirates' are merely the latest in a long list of former technology-and-distribution partners whom Microsoft no longer feels it necessary to tolerate on their turf now that they've achieved ubiquity. Microsoft demanding that everybody using their software pay up pronto will make their prices more publicly visible even as it dries up avenues for avoiding those prices. As the price of Microsoft software becomes more visible ("It costs what to have Windows preinstalled on my new machine?!"), more people will seriously reevaluate whether it's worth the price. This can only help push FLOSS adoption past the tipping-point. |
| tadelste Feb 20, 2006 8:48 AM EDT |
Just to build on your post, some people do not realize that if you were a Solution Provider, they gave you software with your annual fee. If you dropped them, you become a target. Your licenses may have lapsed. |
| cr Feb 20, 2006 9:10 AM EDT |
What a superlative way to drive former allies into the opposing camps! I commend them on their exit strategy -- it seems as well-crafted as SCO's. |
| tadelste Feb 20, 2006 2:20 PM EDT |
cr: I know that people hate it when we compare Microsoft to the nazi's and the SS in particular. Afterall, the nazi's killed people out in the open. But Microsoft is like the cigarette industry. Microsoft ruins people's lives by killing jobs and putting very low level people on administrative tasks, hurting productivity, stopping innovation, etc. So, people suffer a slow death. I know there's a difference but when you're 75 years old, what difference will it make, really? |
| jdixon Feb 20, 2006 3:05 PM EDT |
> But Microsoft is like the cigarette industry. That is a very apt analogy. |
| tadelste Feb 20, 2006 3:35 PM EDT |
Do you apt like in mentally quick and resourceful; or at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant ? |
| jdixon Feb 20, 2006 3:53 PM EDT |
> Do you apt like in mentally quick and resourceful; Well, since the OED isn't at hand, my Webster's gives the definition of "appropriate; fitting". > or at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant ? Well, with Microsoft, that's always a possibility. :) |
| tadelste Feb 20, 2006 8:44 PM EDT |
Very good! |
| salparadise Feb 21, 2006 12:52 AM EDT |
I suspect they might find a little more in the way of bloody minded contrariness and general apathy in the UK than they bargained for. |
| jdixon Feb 21, 2006 2:23 AM EDT |
Sal: Let's hope so. :) |
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