If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From Us
According to
this article from InformationWeek, this is how Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes thinks about software piracy. I kind of agree with him. Without software piracy, Microsoft wouldn't have their large market share that they are having today in poorer countries. Once the users got accustomed to their products, it would be much easier to sell their products later on when the users get richer and want less troubles(pirated software comes with legal copies of viruses, worms sometimes :P).
Yeah, steal from them, since there is nothing to steal from the open source world.
So, what is software piracy really bad for? The open source world! With cheap commercial products being available at a price of a lunch, no one(except those with a conscience) would even care to use the open source products which might come at the same price. So, who is the actual victim of software piracy? I will leave the answer to you.
1 comment:
If it has got its user base early enough, it will have gained more attention from the hardware companies, then the biggest problem of open source software in the early days, the lack of drivers, would have never existed.
Moreover, being a victim doesn't have to mean that you lose something, not having the right to have what you need makes you a victim, too. Right?
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