Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:46:38 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <02ac01c1790e$96f842c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <000301c178cb$d105d880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted writes: > Your arguing from a United States viewpoint in > a world forum, and you don't understand it. Why would I argue from a "United States" viewpoint? > Overseas, though, things are much different. In > many countries there is no real history of Windows > usage, and do you know why that is? It's because the > dominant commercial desktop OS for years and years > was OS/2! The commercial desktop OS today is Windows in Europe. Most of the rest of the world doesn't matter, anyway, since it has yet to discover running water. I don't know what leads in the handful of other countries outside the U.S. with healthy infrastructures, such as Japan or Australia. > Also, there's lots of countries where Windows > has not been localized to that country. And FreeBSD has? > It's simple - overseas they are used to paying a > lot more for Microsoft products than we are and > I daresay that the total amount of piracy of Windows > overseas (discounting Asia where piracy is an > institution) in businesses is far less than here in > the US. The actual figures are just the opposite. The U.S. has one of the lowest piracy rates in the world. Piracy is a major problem even in Europe, especially in Southern Europe, where petty dishonesty is a cultural institution. Italy is one of the worst offenders (in Western Europe--in Eastern Europe everything is stolen), as I recall. > Just look at the financial reports for any large > domestic software vendor who has overseas sales > broken out and you will see this. About 80% of Microsoft's sales come from outside the U.S. > In summary, your arguing from a classic "tech" > position where you simply don't take any of the > financial/business/political issues into account ... I've seen the figures. Your assertions concerning piracy and overseas revenue are the opposite of reality. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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