From: mike 

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:24:22 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Richard B."  wrote in message
>news:bo51s25iiad2fcqhnvgju3bnefln82m39u{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Yep...while the real pirates will continue to get away with murder
>> while the honest one get stuck with more expense which likely covers
>> the pirate's dishonesty.
>
>The problem is MS and all software vendors are being told that 25-50% of
>their software that is in use is pirated. So they thing we are a bunch of
>crooks. What they aren't being told is that 100% of their income is coming
>from honest users.
>
>Microsoft is the one that really blows me away though, I don't understand
>how they can believe they need copy protection when pretty much ever
>computer on the planet comes with windows. I mean mankind has bought so many
>copies of windows we should just get a site license for earth at this
>point..

Because Microsoft has taken up the record company business model: sell you
the same content over and over, and use DRM to enable it.

 /m

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