[Tfug] Microsoft's Mad Anti-Piracy Campaign

[Jim Secan]

This is a well-honed tactic from the extortion/racketering business.  You
pound one customer who's owing you money (welshing, I believe the term is)
into the ground knowing full well that you'll lose their business (and
perhaps what they owe you if death is involved) because you can use what
happened to that individual to keep others in line.  In this case, you blow
off someone with 80 PCs to keep the corporate monsters with 80,000 PCs in
line.

Wonderful folks up there in Redmond.  I wonder if they're still going after
school districts, known deadbeats who are a drag on the high tech economy.

Jim

At 08:29 AM 03/12/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Amusing .... and a victory for Free Unix ...
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>-- Microsoft's Mad Anti-Piracy Campaign --
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