Comments on: Microsoft Restricts the Use of Its Products in India http://techrights.org/2009/12/27/microsoft-direct-income-push/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/12/27/microsoft-direct-income-push/comment-page-1/#comment-77240 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:39:16 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=24425#comment-77240 Like the MPAA, they also try to pass new laws to protect them (compare DMCA and 3-strike to software patents). Like the MPAA, they also try to pass new laws to protect them (compare DMCA and 3-strike to software patents).

]]> By: Chips B. Malroy http://techrights.org/2009/12/27/microsoft-direct-income-push/comment-page-1/#comment-77238 Chips B. Malroy Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:14:57 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=24425#comment-77238 What you see with these attacks against "pirates" in India is more of the the same pattern, that has happened before in China and Russia. First there was the BSA, the front group for M$ to sue Businesses, especially in the USA. Then there was the WGA, a way to harvest the ip addresses of those using non paid M$ software, no matter what M$ says it does with the data. Interesting that you have pointed out that M$ is suing Gold Partners, which to me, means Gold Partners, is just another name to M$ to abuse. While it may seem that M$ only goes after businesses, and sellers of counterfeit M$ software, remember the schoolteacher in Russia as an example. What I suggest is, that M$, on the way down will become just like the Hollywood media companies that use the Riaa as a front, and start to sue end users at some point, to increase the bottom line. What you see with these attacks against “pirates” in India is more of the the same pattern, that has happened before in China and Russia. First there was the BSA, the front group for M$ to sue Businesses, especially in the USA. Then there was the WGA, a way to harvest the ip addresses of those using non paid M$ software, no matter what M$ says it does with the data. Interesting that you have pointed out that M$ is suing Gold Partners, which to me, means Gold Partners, is just another name to M$ to abuse.

While it may seem that M$ only goes after businesses, and sellers of counterfeit M$ software, remember the schoolteacher in Russia as an example. What I suggest is, that M$, on the way down will become just like the Hollywood media companies that use the Riaa as a front, and start to sue end users at some point, to increase the bottom line.

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