Desktop Linux's Future

[Charles Yao]

There is also the fact that in third world countries mocrosoft does
not go after pirated copies of windows unless its the large companies
doing it. This ensures that they keep evryone using windows whether
they pay or not, thus keeping their market share.

On 7/19/05, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hello david,
> 
> Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 2:12:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> d> I think we can pretty safely expect Microsoft to come up with some way
> d> to try to cut the throat of Linux while it lies asleep.
> 
> Yes. Can even see them giving away installations for free, at least to
> OEMs if not everyone else, and then pop-up an easy subscription
> extension the next year. :-)
> 
> Basically exactly what Symantec does with Norton AV.  And extensions
> will be cheap enough for people to not really care about the cost.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
> 
> 
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