Subj : XP Home -> XP Pro
To   : ROBERT COUTURE
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Mon Nov 15 2004 11:07 am

RC>Tom Walker -> Robert Couture wrote:

RC> TW>  An Assinine ratialiazion for Theft.

RC>Doesn't have anything to do with my statement.

RC> TW> There can be NO cross compairsion of the Cost of Hardware and Software.

RC>How do you figure that?

RC> TW> They are totaly different and follow different rules of economics.

RC>No they don't.  There is a direct correlation.  No body should be expected 
to
RC>pay 50% on top of the computer price for an OS.  It is ludicrous.  It is
RC>nothing more than greed that Microsoft continues to have these predatory
RC>prices.

RC>Their own pricing structure has a great deal to do with the rampant piracy 
of
RC>their OS.

RC>So now, people in third world countries now get to buy a "cheap" version of
RC>Windows XP.  What abolut the poor people in North America, why is it that 
they
RC>cannot also purchase it?

RC>No, it is ludicrous that they can overcharge for their product when the rest 
of
RC>the industry has reduced their prices.

They have???? What about the prices of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, MS
Office or many of the similar overpriced applications?

Jay
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