[free-sklyarov] Fwd: Smell Test for a Certain Unconfirmed Meeting Report

DeBug debug at centras.lt
Wed Oct 10 02:15:03 PDT 2001


KMS> However, it makes perfect economic sense.  Let's make this perfectly
KMS> clear:

KMS>     Piracy of goods results in LOWER prices, due to market forces.

KMS> This is because the unauthorized production stream competes in the same
KMS> (or markedly similar) market with the authorized product, but faces
KMS> lower production costs.  For the longer demonstration of the same
KMS> statement, see my article on software piracy at:
unauthorized production stream COMPETES. This is very important.
just one example - the harder it will be to get pirated Windows the more people
will switch to Unix'es. I feel that Microsoft is trading piracy on purpose.
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