Thanks to Nathan Trainor for the pointer.
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November 2, 2009 at 9:50 pm
The decision of Microsoft to not seek legal action against those who are pirating their software just because it makes their software more prevalent in China doesn’t make much sense. In the end, Microsoft is setting a precedent that they are complacent to piracy which will just encourage more of it in the future. And the argument that when China’s economy grows larger and their people have more disposable income it will lead to them purchasing Microsoft software doesn’t make any sense because of the simple fact that there is free pirated software available. No matter how much your income is, free will usually trump actually paying for something.
November 3, 2009 at 12:56 am
i think they can balance their costs and benefits of policing piracy in China. The cost of doing so would be very high in China and piracy by helping their software more prevalent would probably lead to more businesses adopting their platform too, meaning more revenues.