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<blockquote data-quote="rogerinlondon" data-source="post: 567143" data-attributes="member: 20356"><p>A bit of a double-edged sword this pirating. One could wonder if Microsoft would actually prefer someone to use a pirated copy of Vista or to install Linux, which you point out is free. They have no revenue in both cases but in the first case they have increased their user base. Similar when Adobe claims that x thousand pirated copies of Photoshop or Dreamweaver or whatever exists and therefore claims to have lost revenues to an amount of the retail price times x. Does it really mean that everyone would have bought Photoshop if pirating was impossible? Or have Adobe simply gained a larger number of users to their products?</p><p></p><p>This thought has of course nothing to do with the fact that it is illegal in any case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rogerinlondon, post: 567143, member: 20356"] A bit of a double-edged sword this pirating. One could wonder if Microsoft would actually prefer someone to use a pirated copy of Vista or to install Linux, which you point out is free. They have no revenue in both cases but in the first case they have increased their user base. Similar when Adobe claims that x thousand pirated copies of Photoshop or Dreamweaver or whatever exists and therefore claims to have lost revenues to an amount of the retail price times x. Does it really mean that everyone would have bought Photoshop if pirating was impossible? Or have Adobe simply gained a larger number of users to their products? This thought has of course nothing to do with the fact that it is illegal in any case. [/QUOTE]
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