I'm not going to disagree I mean after all Bill gates is quoted as saying back in 98
> Although 3 million computers get sold each year in China, people don’t pay for our software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Though by the time XP came around MS was no longer happy with the casual copier although VL still made it pretty dam easy to pirate windows. I still enjoy listening to Dave Plummers talk about windows product activation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0
> Although 3 million computers get sold each year in China, people don’t pay for our software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Though by the time XP came around MS was no longer happy with the casual copier although VL still made it pretty dam easy to pirate windows. I still enjoy listening to Dave Plummers talk about windows product activation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0