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[G4Jedi]

cnet article here

Ballmer wants $100 PCs because he thinks it will curb piracy. Wait a second, he wants PC manufacturers to lower their prices because Microsoft is losing out? Since when do PC manufacturers have much choice about the OS they install on their consumer computers? After all, the world *needs* Windows to run most consumer software, right?

Really, Ballmer, why does Microsoft charge $200 for a full (non-upgrade) version of WinXP Pro? Hmm... let's see here, in the event to curb piracy, and more people PIRATE SOFTWARE than hardware, who do you think should lower their prices? I can build a cheap PC, but why pay for Windows when the internet could give it to me for free?!

Silly monkey...

[Firestarter]

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Ballmer wants $100 PCs because he thinks it will curb piracy.

LOL!

[Gafgarion]

LMAO

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!

[Dr. Geebs]

The best one is the cut-down version of XP targeted at South  East Asia, where there is precisely one legal copy of XP which  has been languishing in the window of a shop in Hanoi since it was released.  Let's see, I make 50$ a month, will I pay 30$ I still can't afford for a cut-down version of XP or have the full thing for free?  Tough call.

(BTW I own a legal copy myself)

[gorilla]

Ballmer is as out of it as former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.  He's so dillusional it's a riot to see what bizarre thing he'll say next.

He's also like Bush.  You want him gone, but life will be much more boring with out him.

[ProfessorX]

I bet I could shoplift a 100 buck PC

[landru]

Assuming you'd want to...

[G4Jedi]

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(BTW I own a legal copy myself)

I also own a legal copy of Win2000 and WinXP Pro, (or rather the ISOs) however paid for neither. Thank you, MSDN Academic Alliance. Though I haven't had to use either for almost two years, and don't have a PC right now anyway.

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He's also like Bush. You want him gone, but life will be much more boring with out him.

So true, but part of me likes that bit of rational sanity I keep.

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I bet I could shoplift a 100 buck PC

Regardless you'd hurt both Microsoft and the PC maker, Wal-Mart would find a way to make money off it even if everyone shoplifted. :razz:

[placy]

http://www.ntk.net/b...er/mirrors.html

Dance monkey boy!

[ProfessorX]

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Assuming you'd want to...

Hey man, I have a heavy door that keeps swinging shut at the most inopportune times.

Something has to keep the damn thing open.

[gbafan]

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I also own a legal copy of Win2000 and WinXP Pro, (or rather the ISOs) however paid for neither. Thank you, MSDN Academic Alliance. Though I haven't had to use either for almost two years, and don't have a PC right now anyway.

FYI, as a MSDN Select licensed developer myself, those licenses are to be used for development and testing only.

[G4Jedi]

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I also own a legal copy of Win2000 and WinXP Pro, (or rather the ISOs) however paid for neither. Thank you, MSDN Academic Alliance. Though I haven't had to use either for almost two years, and don't have a PC right now anyway.

FYI, as a MSDN Select licensed developer myself, those licenses are to be used for development and testing only.

When I first received them I was doing testing and development as a student. Unfortunately I had to use Windows for some things at home, particularly large groupwork projects in VC++. I'm not going to just throw away perfectly good copies of Windows and Visual Studio 6 which I might add my tuition practically paid for anyway. I may use it again someday, because I'll be damned if I ever need to buy Longhorn. Hell, the Win2000 disc is the only one which lets me boot from the CD anyway. And should I ever lose the discs, it's not as if they're important, I wouldn't be able to get another copy. No, I'm no pirate even for Microsoft software.

[JohnRasko]

In my opinion, the only real way to eliminate piracy is to make software free all around. True, people do pirate software because they don't want to spend a lot of money for the software someone is offering. It's not worth it most of the time. But some people pirate software because they don't want to spend any money whatsoever for it. Either because, again, it's not worth it, or they're just too cheap and lazy to get a job, and they have no money. But piracy will always be around, no matter how far the price drops. It might eliminate some of it, but not all.

By the way, you can't really pirate hardware, unless they've invented the replicator. If not, wouldn't pirating hardware be considered shoplifting?