Re: Alias - Correct once
Frank <fb@nospaner.cnm> wrote in
news:#VFomtb5HHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
> DanS wrote:
>
>>>
>>>How do you know that to be true huh?
>>
>
> How do you know it not to be true?
>>
>> Do you have any other source saying it's not ? I didn't think so.
>
> Do you have any sources saying it is? After all it's your
> "assumption", not based on any factual evidence, right?
Well, one piece of evidence could be the exponential growth of binary
usenet over the last five years, from a few 100 megs a day to 5 or 6 gigs a
day on a full binary feed.
>>
>>
>>>Tell me cause I want to know how
>>>it is you, a simple users knows tons more than the company, MS who
>>>wrote and marketed the product?
>>>Please, tell me how you came to this statistical conclusion, ok?
>>>Frank
>>
>>
>> Pretty simple. A person purchasing a piece of s/w, and making copies
>> to hand out to their friends (casual piracy) has a very limited
>> potential in the total quantity distributed.
>>
>
>
> Oh yeah...I don't think MS believes that to be true. I think they know
> more about their market than you or me put together.
>
>> On the other hand, that person then takes the purchased software,
>> posts it in the binary groups (not casual piracy), which it then has
>> potential for tens of millions of people all over the world to
>> procure and use for free.
>>
> Potential is the key word. Potential is not proof of anything. How
> many total people use binary groups? Most people are basically honest.
> A lot of people don't real the EULA and don't know they can't install
> one copy of Windows on all of their home computers or their friends or
> relatives. Multiple computers in the home are becoming very common.
Where have you been, it's been commonplace for a long time.
> Witness the release of Windows Home Server. So causal piracy really
> starts in the home. Activation stops casual piracy. Live with it.
Not really. Yeah, multiple computers, but with the majority being purchased
from OEM's with a valid Windows version pre-installed.
>
>> It's common sense.
>
> Grow up as*hole...common sense is an oxymoron.
Common sense not an oxymoron....'Military Intelligence' is, but not common
sense.
> Oh wait, I fogot to with whom I was speaking.
>
> And just who do you think you're speaking to?
You, you wannabe.