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Story: Ballmer hints at tougher Vista antipiracy crackdownTotal Replies: 4
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henke54

Mar 13, 2007
11:02 AM EDT
Quoting:At the Morgan Stanley Technology conference last week in San Francisco, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes commented on the benefits of software counterfeiting. "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else," he said. "We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software."


http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/03/12/mic...
dcparris

Mar 13, 2007
2:40 PM EDT
Somehow, your link leads to a blank page.
henke54

Mar 13, 2007
9:57 PM EDT
here is another link from the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/ms_piracy_benefits/
dcparris

Mar 13, 2007
10:35 PM EDT
Isn't that basically the same message that Gates sent when he insulted China? Some things never change, huh?
tracyanne

Mar 13, 2007
10:46 PM EDT
Steve Balmer needs to jump on this bloke and fast. We can't have someone saying that Piracy is good for business.

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