Comments on: Stolen lawn mowers and Chinese rage against Microsoft http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/ Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:52:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heike http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1340 Heike Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:33:40 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1340 "That young Henry and his motorized buggy cart, upstart whipper snapper!" - Buggy cart inventor dude Welcome to the free-market economy. :) “That young Henry and his motorized buggy cart, upstart whipper snapper!”

- Buggy cart inventor dude

Welcome to the free-market economy. :)

]]> By: Eastwood http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Eastwood Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:47:57 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1339 Also from Steve: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." :lol: Also from Steve:

“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.”

:lol:

]]> By: Heike http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Heike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:49 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1338 “We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.” -Steve Ballmer “We [Microsoft] don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.”

-Steve Ballmer

]]> By: Monopolistic Lawn Mower | Eastwood Zhao dot COM http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1336 Monopolistic Lawn Mower | Eastwood Zhao dot COM Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:42:11 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1336 [...] turns out that your neighbour next door is not — like you expected — a small house with a green lawn, but instead,  a giant, [...] [...] turns out that your neighbour next door is not — like you expected — a small house with a green lawn, but instead,  a giant, [...]

]]> By: Heike http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 Heike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:33:48 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1334 CBRP1R8, One other thing comes to my mind, if 73% of users have pirated software that can be manipulated from updates, doesn't that pose a huge security vulnerability? CBRP1R8,

One other thing comes to my mind, if 73% of users have pirated software that can be manipulated from updates, doesn’t that pose a huge security vulnerability?

]]> By: CBRP1R8 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/10/stolen-lawn-mowers-and-chinese-rage-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 CBRP1R8 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:19:25 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=636#comment-1333 This is kind of interesting, i've been reading it here and on a few other sites and keeping up with it the last few days. The lawyer keeps going on about how this is similar to the company in china that released a logic bomb to all its users who had the software installed and it would only be caught by the non-pirated software and makes a comparison to that. I thought it was kinda interesting to see what the internal chinese poll said about it. "Microsoft's plan has aroused huge controversy in China. According to a poll on Chinese portal QQ.com, out of 574,923 participants, 73.33 percent said they were using pirate versions of XP, 51.58 percent said they intend to continue using pirate versions, and 32.87 percent said they will ignore Microsoft's "black screen" campaign. Only 15.55 percent said they intend to buy an authorized version. 77.23 percent said they oppose Microsoft's action." 73% have pirated s/w....wow! This is kind of interesting, i’ve been reading it here and on a few other sites and keeping up with it the last few days. The lawyer keeps going on about how this is similar to the company in china that released a logic bomb to all its users who had the software installed and it would only be caught by the non-pirated software and makes a comparison to that. I thought it was kinda interesting to see what the internal chinese poll said about it.

“Microsoft’s plan has aroused huge controversy in China. According to a poll on Chinese portal QQ.com, out of 574,923 participants, 73.33 percent said they were using pirate versions of XP, 51.58 percent said they intend to continue using pirate versions, and 32.87 percent said they will ignore Microsoft’s “black screen” campaign. Only 15.55 percent said they intend to buy an authorized version. 77.23 percent said they oppose Microsoft’s action.”

73% have pirated s/w….wow!

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