Comments on: Why won’t the $3 Windows and Office package be available to everyone? http://www.proofficesupply.com/blog/why-wont-the-3-windows-and-office-package-be-available-to-everyone/ Tue, 22 May 2012 08:41:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Trey Adams http://www.proofficesupply.com/blog/why-wont-the-3-windows-and-office-package-be-available-to-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 Trey Adams Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:24:01 +0000 http://www.proofficesupply.com/blog/why-wont-the-3-windows-and-office-package-be-available-to-everyone/#comment-1466 The best part about the information age is that anyone can express an opinion--even when they have no understanding of basic economics. The best part about the information age is that anyone can express an opinion–even when they have no understanding of basic economics.

]]> By: Peaches http://www.proofficesupply.com/blog/why-wont-the-3-windows-and-office-package-be-available-to-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 Peaches Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:27:49 +0000 http://www.proofficesupply.com/blog/why-wont-the-3-windows-and-office-package-be-available-to-everyone/#comment-1465 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. 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.

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