On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:04:13PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > A. It's "micros~1", not "micro~1".
I didn't check it on dos but the less letters you use the more happiness you give. > B. It can backfire on them, just like it did in the US in the education > market. The more people pay retail price for each and every license, the > less attractive basing MS solution is compared to alternatives, the less > solid their Monopoly becomes, the less money they can make. > > There is a ballance here. I think the whole BSA thing is that MS thinks > that they now hold enough of the market to consider each and every > license stolen as a license lost. This move /only/ makes sense if their > monopoly is unbudgable (nothing in the world will eliminate it). It may > have nothing to do with it. It may be just that they have reached the > end of the rope in terms of getting money via the usual channels, and > being blocked away from moving to their logical next stage (license > software, .Net, etc) because of bad customer acceptance and court battles. > > Either way, scare tactics create the image of a bully, creating > antagonizm, which is never a good thing with people you expect to get > money from. Think how many gleeful MS bashers are on this list who could > otherwise be writing software running on Windows, using Windows, and > creating more demand for Windows. I agree with you. > > What I'm trying to say is that, yes, it is costing them money. The only > question is whether it is costing them more money than it is getting > them. Personally, I think so. There are so many companies you can push > around for so long, but bad feelings are almost forever. > I don't think M$ have a money problem but they sure think of what they get of it. > Shachar > > > Peleg Wasserman wrote: > > >I wonder why am I not surprised. > >Is there a way that it can backfire at them? > > > >-Peleg. > > > >At 18:23 23/05/2002 +0300, Eliran wrote: > > > >>Hello ! > >> > >>Some time ago, I have read an email from someone (don't remember the > >>name) > >>says he received an email from you-know-who telling him he got > >>illegal m$ > >>software or something in this style. > >> > >>Here is something I saw in YNet: > >>http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1891529,00.html > >> > >>Regards, > >>Eliran > >> > >> > >>-- > >> <a href="http://eg-site.tripod.com";>Eliran</a> > >> > >>The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of > >>slander on the poor. > >> -- H. L. Mencken > >> > >>================================================================= > >>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > >================================================================= > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- <a href="http://eg-site.tripod.com";>Eliran</a> "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
