On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:02 am, Pascal Bleser wrote:
E. Hoon Shim wrote:
I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even more attractive and increases their efforts.
Their efforts ? What efforts ?
The day that Microsoft software like Windows and MSOffice won't be easy to crack will be the day Linux takes over the desktop in a snap.
I mean, who is going to pay those huge amounts of licenses ? MSOffice is insanely expensive. And in a lot of countries (e.g. South Asia or Africa), it costs as much as several months of salary.
At least for the OS, and maybe even for MS Office, I would guess that a very large proportion of the installations are pre-installed by a hardware vendor and the user has no choice in the matter. That's what's pushing Vista, I'm sure. Even among MS fanatics, not many will want to lay out the bucks for an "upgrade" (sarcastic quotes intended). Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org