![]() ![]() He cited the above reasoning, noting that users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from the company later on. Jeff Raikes, head of the company’s business group, said at a recent investor conference that while the company is against piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate Microsoft software. Now the company is stating more clearly that it knows there are some benefits to piracy. This latter point is something that even Bill Gates has admitted, even while Microsoft continues to talk tough about cracking down on piracy. Furthermore, the argument ignores the fact that companies actually benefit in some ways from piracy, because a user of pirated software is likely to purchase software from the same maker at some point down the road. For one thing, there’s no reason to think that a given user of pirated software would have actually purchased a legitimate copy. Tue, Mar 13th 2007 12:24am - Joseph Weisenthalįor some time, big software companies have tried to make the argument that a copy of pirated software is equivalent to a lost sale This is pretty ridiculous for a couple reasons. ![]()
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