Bill Gates: Pimp, pusher or priest?
By Wes | December 16th, 2009
I was also flirting with the idea of naming this post Piracy still a major concern as thousands of customers come clean to Microsoft, but that just summed it up too well.
A recent Microsoft announcement states that it has engaged with over 150,000 Windows and other MS program users who have recently flooded their Redmond office with confessions of using pirated software. Can you picture over 150,000 bottom lips quivering a little from a mix of fear and shame as they guiltily recount their sins in front of the the priests of programming and cardinals of coding at Microsoft headquarters? It’s a bit of a 180 degree turn for the company as the pontiff of proprietary software himself Bill Gates recently spoke at the University of Washington where he nonchalantly stated that:
“…about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software, someday they will though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. [software] They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
So like an inner city dealer Gates has willingly let the product get into the user’s system (literally) and will be looking to rope them in no matter how many car stereos they have to steal or purses they have to snatch to pay him.
So why all the coming clean if Gates himself has said he won’t release the knee-breakers? Turns out that the pirated software usually comes with free malware and spyware features that completely expose the user’s computer to crooks and scumbags who then steal their stuff with ease. The users have now come crying to the dealer that the product they’ve been using has been cut with comet, rigged with Robitussin, sauced up with sugar and ephedra and now they’ve got to get the good stuff, the pure s**t, cause it works so goooood. And Gates can offer them that software fix for the going price on the street, and he can offer them protection too.
He wants you to confess. (to confess go here)
Confess…confess and all will be forgiven. He will welcome you back into his flock of Microsoft junkies, always waiting for that next fix.
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Tags: Bill Gates, China, here, malware and spyware, Microsoft, Microsoft Announcement, pirated software
