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by ObviousTroll on Sat Dec 23, 2006 at 09:41:21 PM PDT

Fear of litigation. Read the article again - the company knew that a small percentage of its copies of Office didn't have valid licenses and that many others could be made to appear invalid by a competent lawyer. So, if the article is accurate, Microsoft basically extorted protection money out of them.

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You are probably correct.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by James Bond on Mon Dec 25, 2006 at 09:25:19 PM PDT

So that company allows Microsoft to extort money from it in the name of protecting against ligitation. Are these companies going to stand this again and again. If they continue to stick with Microsoft, this is going to repeat itself.

Have they considered other alternatives? Why do they allow Microsoft to continue to grab money from them? No wonder why Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are so rich!

Personally, I won't hand over any of my money to Microsoft again. No Vista, no Office 2007, no Zune, no more new Microsoft products for me.

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I'll Second That ...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by In my humble opinion on Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 05:33:25 PM PDT

No more M$ product upgrades for me either. I'm installing ONLY OpenOffice on the home PC for my kids. While they will probably learn on MS products at school, their homework assignments will be completed using OpenOffice. I'll install Linux on the next (faster) home PC so they will be motivated to learn that too. Once they are "multi-lingual" they can decide for themselves if they want to pay for M$ products. Given the M$ trend towards increasing DRM functionality in their products, I suspect it will be an easy decision.

Remember the CSNY song Teach your Children Well ? This is an important lesson to pass along.

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