Re: Solution to Piracy


Mistoffolees wrote:

Alias wrote:

Mistoffolees wrote:


Alias wrote:

Windows XP Home, $50, three for $125

Window XP Pro, $75, three for $175.

No OEM, only retail.

I know there are people who would steal software even it's priced at one dollar. They are an insignificant minority, however.

Alias




This is a throwback to the 1980's when everybody had to buy
or pay for a MS-DOS with the sale of a desktop system. Pricing
was also reasonable, perhaps $25 for the diskettes and a full
manual. Licensing also allowed the OS to be transferred from
one machine to another regardless of whether it ws retailed or
came through an OEM, but so long as it was limited to one machine
at any given time. Even then, pirating was rampant because the
cost of 3 to 5 floppy diskettes was still cheaper. The way to
beat win is to beat the pirates at their own game.


The crack for the new WGA came out minutes later. Cat and mouse games with crackers at the expense of paying customers is not "beating the pirates at their own game" It's stupid. Lower the prices of XP and the pirates are out of business and the paying customers will be happy.

Alias



An interesting opportunity awaits Microsoft that might change
its dogma on licensing and alter the pricing paradigm that has
resulted from its current track. No doubt, Microsoft would allow
upgrades to Vista only from "genuine" copies of Windows XP. If
Microsoft made everyone's XP "genuine" through a patch, reduce
the price of Vista to reasonable and fair, single-unit pricing
(i.e., as it was in the 1980's when there were no "corporate"
discounts or volume licensing or even "incentive", i.e., OEM,
licensing), then a lot of the ill will should disappear and
Microsoft's profitability should remain unchanged since the
losses to external factors would be significantly reduced.

If the MVP's want to score some points, it is about time they
started bending the tail on the tiger instead of parroting the
party line.


Sure. Happy dreams. Won't happen because this is a different era
where cost-recovery of R&D is more important than putting volume
into the marketplace. The important milestone is not how many units
were sold but what is the profitability.

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