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0 pointsjohnchristopher12y ago0 comments

You are mistaking Adobe for MS. MS is going down hard on pirates reselling their stuff to individuals or making it available online.

Also you seem to imply MS let every software be torrented intentionnaly. But MS doesn't publish every software in the world and they aren't responsible, nor should they fight, for other software makers's piracy problems.

It's certainly not part of their strategy. More like a pirate post-fact rationalisation line of thinking.

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nivla12y ago

> You are mistaking Adobe for MS. It's certainly not part of their strategy.

Nope, they are following the same brilliant strategy as Adobe.

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." [1]

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...

johnchristopherOP12y ago

Damn, you are right. I remember reading that quote years ago. To be fair he specifically deals with Chinese and asian markets though. Not sure this applies to the US and european markets.

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