[Tfug] Microsoft's Mad Anti-Piracy Campaign

[Jacob Greig]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jim Secan wrote:

> 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.

afaik, they still are. which is fine with me, it just drives home the
whole point behind tux4kids, osef, seul/edu, etc :)

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Jacob Greig
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