XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: marbarand@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/08/2010 12:43 AM, ZnU wrote:   
   > In article,   
   >   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In message, ZnU wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> But it's easy to answer the question of who wins from more widespread   
   >>> adoption of Windows.   
   >>   
   >> Not so easy. First of all, you must ask: _legitimate_ adoption of Windows,   
   >> or _illegitimate_ adoption? With as many as 50% of the world’s   
   copies of   
   >> Windows pirated, that means the market for proprietary software may not be   
   >> as big as people assume.   
   >   
   > Even pirated copies of software can help strengthen the value networks   
   > that surround it. Indeed, many have noted that Microsoft largely seems   
   > to turn a blind eye to developing world piracy, probably for just this   
   > reason. They'd rather have people using illegal Windows than legal Linux.   
      
   What happens is that Microsoft works with the ignorance of people. They   
   make users think that Windows is the only thing that exists to make a   
   computer work.   
   I doubt that even half of the so mentioned imaginary 90% of Windows   
   users say when installing.- “Windows or a Linux Distribution? Windows!!   
   Because it works better, much better.”. Nop, that doesn’t happen.   
      
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