XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-12-08, flatfish+++  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:54:11 -0300, Magno wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > You mean like BMW tries to convince consumers that the BMW is the   
   > ultimate driving machine.   
      
   ...big difference between "ultimate" and ONLY.   
      
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   rather create a DVD using those Linux apps we're told don't exist.   
      
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