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My gut feeling is that Microsoft has turned a blind eye toward piracy by individuals for many years. Almost everyone I know who began doing system administratio
by zerohp 15y ago
My gut feeling is that Microsoft has turned a blind eye toward piracy by individuals for many years. Almost everyone I know who began doing system administration during the late 90's learned NT4 by pirating it.
- guelo 15y agoIn a way it's a smart way to differentiate customers. Since the pirates also add value to the platform you don't want to lose them, but you also want to extract the money you can from those willing to pay. By demonizing pirates while allowing the pirate channel to exist they are able to do both.
- zokier 15y agoAnother similar case: Photoshop.
- 89a 15y agoWhich actually became easier to pirate in the later versions