[PLUG-TALK] Bill Gates says Piracy Good for Business

[Michael Rasmussen]

  Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's
best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of
China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux
when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You
can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back
alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks. And
Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows
and Office to students.


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/index.htm


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