Re: Activation code

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D@annyBoy wrote:
> Is that net or gross profit?

Net before tax.

>
> I wonder what's are the cost involved in sending the CDs to beta
> testers, maintaining the servers for testers?

How much do you buy a blank CD for? Think how little MS pays for bulk
CD press runs. Think how even less is spent in distribution over the
internet.

Think how much they save using volunteer beta testers.



>
> After sales service?

You mean the outsourcing of techsupport jobs to India?

> Maintaining a team to iron out the bugs and
> providing service packs to legal and illegal users?

On staff. Got to keep them busy between Major Software revisions.

> I do shared the opinion that the OS is too expensive for many users
> all over the world, and MS's effort to provide a lean WinXP cheaply
> is a lame excuse. Nevertheless, consumers do have a choice.

I know that I don't. My computer won't run anything but a MS OS. I
know my mother can't run Linux. She had a hard enough time learning
Windows, and a 64, she ain't learning how to use linux.

Using linux for many people means giving up everything they have
invested over the years. In hardware, software, and education. And
forget Apple. I would cost me $3000 to $4000 at the very LEAST to
replace my hardware and software.

Choice is the problem, as it means using MS OS's, or have to make
sacrifices to run another OS. That isn't a really good choice at all!

But one day soon, Linux will become a reasonable choice to make for many
computer users, and then MS is gonna be in a lot of trouble for
purposely pissing off its customer base over the last dozen years or so.
MS's days are numbered when it comes to being the dominent OS of home
consumers, and they only have themselves to blame!

>
>
> While sipping a glass of wine, I read that kurttrail wrote in
> news:et3iYhTZFHA.1544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>> D@annyBoy wrote:
>>> especially the cost !!!
>>>
>>> BUT if you only know the amount of effort put in to ensure the OS
>>> runs with minimal bugs, then the price you pay for a legal copy is
>>> chicken feed
>>
>> And if you knew the net profit margin, you'd see that MS charges
>> much more than the fair return it is owed for the creative labor of
>> its employees. "Microsoft's 86% Windows profit margin draws criticism
>> from consumer
>> groups" - http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_711827.html?menu
>>
>> "The limited scope of the copyright holder's statutory monopoly,
>> like the limited copyright duration required by the Constitution,
>> reflects a balance of competing claims upon the public interest:
>> Creative work is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private
>> motivation must ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public
>> availability of literature, music, and the other arts. The immediate
>> effect of our copyright law is to secure a fair return for an
>> 'author's' creative labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this
>> incentive, to stimulate artistic creativity for the general public
>> good. 'The sole interest of the United States and the primary
>> object in conferring the monopoly,' this Court has said, 'lie in the
>> general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors' .
>> . . . When technological change has rendered its literal terms
>> ambiguous, the Copyright Act must be construed in light of this
>> basic purpose." - http://laws.findlaw.com/us/422/151.html



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