Why won’t the $3 Windows and Office package be available to everyone?
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Why won’t the $3 Windows and Office package be available to everyone.
That is the only fair way to sell a product unless you are deliberately trying to get more people hooked on a product, not really any different than distributing crack to children.
Once you get them addicted then they are bent to your will forever more and terrified of losing their supply line. Essentially removing the freedom of choice.
Or are we supposed the believe that this is a magnanimous act of philanthropy? Microsoft’s genuine concern for the less fortunate children of the world.
Maybe I am just cynical but it seems to me more like this is the most blatant display of “dumping” and antitrust violation to date by the most sinister entity that has ever existed.
They conjure up the image of the first horseman of the apocalypse for me more than they do that of Santa Claus.
But if that is not true then Microsoft should be consistent and offer the same $3 package for everyone regardless of where they happen to live.
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Why won’t the $3 Windows and Office package be available to everyone.
That is the only fair way to sell a product unless you are deliberately trying to get more people hooked on a product, not really any different than distributing crack to children.
Once you get them addicted then they are bent to your will forever more and terrified of losing their supply line. Essentially removing the freedom of choice.
Or are we supposed the believe that this is a magnanimous act of philanthropy? Microsoft’s genuine concern for the less fortunate children of the world.
Maybe I am just cynical but it seems to me more like this is the most blatant display of “dumping” and antitrust violation to date by the most sinister entity that has ever existed.
They conjure up the image of the first horseman of the apocalypse for me more than they do that of Santa Claus.
But if that is not true then Microsoft should be consistent and offer the same $3 package for everyone regardless of where they happen to live.
June 9th, 2009 at 5:27 am
If Mictrosoft charged $3 to everyone who wanted Office and Windows, they would not afford to create the software.
Miscosoft realizes there is a market that cannot afford their product. Once software is written, one copy costs thw same as a million, so by giving to those who cannot affordat a discount, it allows them to part take in something they ordinarily could could not.
More plainly. I can by a box of rice for $2 at the grocery store. Would you have a problem if rice producers sold a 40 pound bag of rice to a starving nation for pennies? Apparently, you would.
Would it be better for Microsoft to charge us regular folks a sunstantial sum for their software and not let the poor get any use out of it at all?
It is not getting the poor hooed because third world nation wont be able to buy the full priced version in the foreseeable future…. and Linux isn;t going away. Microsoft has to compete with it.
June 10th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
The best part about the information age is that anyone can express an opinion–even when they have no understanding of basic economics.