Comments on: Gates ignores Gorbachev plea http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11235 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11235/comment-page-1#comment-133382 Reader's Write Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:30:05 +0000 #comment-133382 I concurr. I concurr.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11235/comment-page-1#comment-133352 Reader's Write Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:06:55 +0000 #comment-133352 "To derive its piracy rate, IDC estimates the average amount of software that is installed on a PC per country, using data from surveys, interviews and other studies. That figure is then reduced by the known quantity of software sold per country-a calculation in which IDC specialises. The result: a (supposed) amount of piracy per country. Multiplying that figure by the revenue from legitimate sales thus yields the retail value of the unpaid-for software. This, IDC and BSA claim, equals the amount of lost revenue." This is probably how the RIAA and the MPAA "studies" are conducted as well. “To derive its piracy rate, IDC estimates the average amount of software that is installed on a PC per country, using data from surveys, interviews and other studies. That figure is then reduced by the known quantity of software sold per country-a calculation in which IDC specialises. The result: a (supposed) amount of piracy per country. Multiplying that figure by the revenue from legitimate sales thus yields the retail value of the unpaid-for software. This, IDC and BSA claim, equals the amount of lost revenue.”

This is probably how the RIAA and the MPAA “studies” are conducted as well.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11235/comment-page-1#comment-133345 Reader's Write Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:09:02 +0000 #comment-133345 ...to control the computerization of the Russian educational system, so this lawsuit may actually help to raise awareness. "Got an old PC at your school? -- ask Microsoft for a free Win9x license!" - or so goes the recent slogan. School computerization contracts are awarded to Microsoft far and wide while specialized Russian educational projects, such as locally-developed MOPSLinux, win limited trials at best. Whether that's a dizzying petrodollar haze or foolish ignorance on the part of bureaucracy is debatable but the damage is evident. …to control the computerization of the Russian educational system, so this lawsuit may actually help to raise awareness.

“Got an old PC at your school? — ask Microsoft for a free Win9x license!” – or so goes the recent slogan. School computerization contracts are awarded to Microsoft far and wide while specialized Russian educational projects, such as locally-developed MOPSLinux, win limited trials at best. Whether that’s a dizzying petrodollar haze or foolish ignorance on the part of bureaucracy is debatable but the damage is evident.

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