Maybe Bill Gates Should Stop Making Predictions
from the you-said-what-now? dept
Just days after Bill Gates didn't solve the spam problem by the deadline he had promised two years ago, it looked like he might be spouting off again. This time, Reuters says he's claiming that we'll be able to beat software piracy in China and India -- though, he's giving a longer timeline. This time it's 10 years... and the details actually suggest it's not quite as crazy as the Reuters headline suggests. He wasn't saying that Microsoft would beat software piracy in those countries, but that the level of unauthorized copying would decrease to about the same level as in the US and Europe. Also, he seems to be indicating that this is a natural progression as the local economy builds its own software industry.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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A boy can dream...
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MS Word Office and all those products if I'm not mistaken is sold at significantly lower prices in countries not used to spending their day to monthly pay on a piece of software.
Same goes with DVDs, thus the region codes.
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My prediction....
- But seriously, I can see it slowing down as he predicts. That makes sense, but the whole "as the local economy builds its own software industry" part is not what makes it a no brainer.
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Lets do all we can....
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Can he focuse on Spam or security?
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omg, stupid people
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Remember this?
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pooopstainzmcgraw: obviously you've never used a d
How about OpenOffice.org - its every bit as good as MS Office - AND it has the corporate backing of Sun Microsystems which developed the old StarOffice Suite which OpenOffice is based on (they made it open-source and now its OOo), along with backing from Google and an assload of other billion dollar multi national corporations.
And as for the article? everybody knows hotmail sucks, hell, even yahoo mail is better... but better than that, just ask people you know that have Gmail accounts if they would be so kind as to send you an invitation. I have not once gotten a single bit of spam with Gmail unless it was from a website I registered at, and the websites always have an option to not receive the email letters.
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