RE: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

Ok, that makes some sense... like teenagers growing up on pirated
software buying it when they get old enough to spend other people's
money :-)

IF this is the case though, why has Microsoft turned up the heat on
pirates and this silly crap about the software activation sludge?
Apparently, Microsoft does NOT agree that piracy is good for Microsoft.

By the way, Microsoft isn't competing with open source, but it is
representative of proprietary software. Proprietary software IS in fact
battling it out in the field of ideas against open source. May the best
idea prevail!! As soon as Microsoft wakes up and smells the open source
coffee, then they will no longer be viewed as the poster boys for
proprietary software, and sanity will reign as a balance of open and
closed source applications live happily together forever, just like the
Brady Bunch.... Marsha Marsha Marsha, you open source slut!... gee, did
I write that?

-Kelly 

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Gordon [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

Think of a developing country where the vast majority of people with
computers would have to spend a year's wages to buy a legitimate copy of
Windows, but where the economy is expected to grow and people are
expected to get richer.

Once the country becomes richer, all the people who run Linux and have
experience using Linux become part of the market for Linux-based
applications and tools.  All the people who run pirated copies of
Windows and have experience using Windows become part of the market for
Windows-based applications and tools, *and furthermore*, they (or their
employers) have enough money that Microsoft can start enforcing their
copyrights.







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