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Free is too expensive (Economist)Free is too expensive (Economist)Posted Apr 10, 2012 21:12 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by khim Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
where linux and windows are both 'free', windows will win due to the network effect.
but if microsoft didn't allow for the piracy of windows to maintain this, they would not both be free.
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Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 10, 2012 21:57 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] This is exactly what I'm saying. It's not up to the Microsoft to determine if given country has high piracy or not. But in both cases Windows wins: if piracy is high the Windows wins because of network effect, if it's low then Microsoft makes good money and spends some of it via kickbacks to promote Windows. Windows wins in both cases. Q.E.D.
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