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Re: M$ IL latest craze
%> > You shoud understand them. The software piracy rate in Israel
%> > _is_ really high, and it's not good. Criminals.
%> >
%> > > what do they want?
%> >
%> > Money. Let's face it: Microsoft is a falling company, it will
%> > die in 5 or 10 years.
%
%With $80 BILLION to back them up.. they are not going to fall, die,
%or even blink. Unless Bill decides to purchase Kosovo, NATO bombing
%included. </sarcasm>
%
%I don't see how stopping the migration to Hebrew would
%help Microsoft's interests in Israel. Instead of buying the upgrade
%to Windows XT 2050, people will run their old NT 4.0 and Windows 9x boxes.
%In my book, that's Microsoft *losing* money. What option is better,
%selling X, profiting 900% or so on it, and have some potential Y pirated
%-- or -- selling 0, profiting 0 and having nothing pirated.
%
%This reminds me an old on-going debate on the use of MP3s.. it's a
%paradox. If there is an artist that has a very old and rare album that's
%totally unavailable, how can he be losing money if someone pirates it.
%That so-called money would have never reached him, since the product is
%unavailable "legally".. (artist == M$, rare album = Heb. Windows XT 2050)
%
I dont agree with you, first of all, Hebrew support is not just
transporting fonts but rather support the entire hebrew syntax: writing
left to write, switching and embeleshing english,dictionaries inside etc.
And that luxury costs ALOT of money for a language only 10 million ppl use
worldwide at best and only a small precentage of them uses a computer with
that particular object in mind. It is MUCH easier to write french support
to windows that to write hebrew support. So unless ALOT of ppl start
buying and PAYING for microsofts stuff, I dont see why they should spend
all the money in vain especially if 40% (by this groups estimate ) steals
them. So I dont blame them.
About the MP3 remark, I think its totally out of order. first of all the
artist might want to enlarge the value of this album by making it a
collector's Item and pirating it stops it from that and makes him lose
money. You can say the same thing about a bad stamp. in itself a bad stamp
is a collectors Item, but when all stamps are like it, you cant even mail
with it,
But Microsofts products are not collectors Items so I dont think your MP3
remark was in place. What I think has happened, is that bootlegs have
become the rule instead of the exception, and ppl get everything they
wanted in a bootleg, and that markets gets really hot now and even ppl
who WILL pay money for Microsoft software will get the bootleg instead
and that is a LOSE for microsoft.
Microsofts tries to cool it down, maybe put some preassure on people who
have the original to stop giving it to others to copy or else ...
I dont know if it will work but I hope it will make more ppl abandone
microsoft and go to linux.