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Comments on news posted 2007-03-14 11:05:58: A Microsoft exec this week admitted that if you're going to pirate software, Microsoft hopes it's theirs. ..
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capecoddah
join:2005-03-18
Yarmouth Port, MA
| I bet the poor teacher in Russiam is still PO'd Microsoft whacked some poor teacher in Russia $10,000 for pirated software. The poor 'sookin sin' probably makes $12,000 a year. I left my copies of software and music at the school in Russia where I help teach English. They have bought a new version of AutoCAD, Windows and ZZ Top shot to the top of the local top 10. Just some thoughts. | |
| | wispagod
join:2001-06-28
House Springs, MO | Re: I bet the poor teacher in Russiam is still PO'd I have this thing, that if you pirate it and use it for educational Personal use, and dont try and sell it or make $$$ off it that's what they want, so you'll learn it enough to promote it later on. | |
| | | AnonShawUser
join:2006-06-17
Calgary, AB
| Re: I bet the poor teacher in Russiam is still PO'd As I see it, unless the software is aimed specifically and solely at the "home" or "personal" markets, an individual has no real reason to pay for it. A lot of times, it's only to demo, or for rare/occasional use(such as Office, to use Word for resumes and the like).
But, if you seek to make it commercial, to make any money from the software, you should have to buy it.
For personal, non-commercial, occasional use, piracy means training. You learn how to use it, which may help out for your job and could lead you to have them purchase full licenses.
But, if it's smaller software, such as a usenet client, or winrar, or something like that, with a 15-20 dollar price tags, something you'll probably use quite frequently, then the price isn't so bad. When you can afford it, anyway.
At the very least, piracy means no one else is getting the money. It also helps to build software brand loyalty. If software isn't even being pirated, it's typically just not worth using.
And on that note, for anyone who needs a really good backup suite, go check out Acronis. It's helped me tons of times, to keep my system from flipping out, to the point I couldn't recover.  | |
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holywhippet
@net.au
| origins Microsoft were somewhat pro-piracy of their OS back in the old days. They weren't so much concerned with making money from sales as establishing an install base. They wanted people using their OS so they'd be less likely to use anything else.
Moreso than DOS, their main ripoff was Windows from OS/2. Microsoft even had people working on OS/2 for IBM - evidently Gates realised this was the way of the future and began his own competing OS. You can add conflicts of interest to Microsoft's list of offenses. | |
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siouxmoux
@comcast.net | Now if Micro$haft would offer Now if Micro$haft would offer a option for users who Download Pirated versions of their Software a way pf going Illegit, by letting them Purchasing A new product key license for anywhere from $10-20 Dollars could put hugh dent in Software Piracy. | |
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ctceo
Premium
join:2001-04-26
South Bend, IN
clubs: | If? If more companies, especially Game companies, were to start using Linux as well as M$ then M$ would be SOL, for sure. This is where the problem lies for Linux, not enough traditional support for what a majority of users have the OS for. | |
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