On 2018-08-01 15:10, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Carlos E R writes:
On 2018-08-01 09:04, Chris wrote:
nospam wrote:

[No idea what news:alt.privacy.anon-server has to do with the
topic; dropped.]

Fine with me :-)


[...]

quite a bit does. chromebooks are very strong in education and web
apps (mainly google) are winning out over ms office.

Not in the UK. Schools and universities are wall to wall MS. Which
is particularly depressing given the lack of money in schools.

I was in a classroom a few years back here (Spain), and the funny
thing was that the school officially embraced free software; yet the
teachers wrote their pieces on Word instead of LibreOffice, so the
students did the same (without licenses). Someone really using LO had
a bit of a problem because the formatting often is not accurately
converted.

Most of the people I saw used Windows and Office without licenses, so
MS was getting nothing - except that the people got familiar with MS
and demand MS products later.

I don't know how [1] is reliable as a source, but I'm going to
quote it anyway.

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China,
people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though,"
Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as
long as they're 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."

[1] How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows // Los Angeles Times.
URI: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr...i-micropiracy9

I don't know if the quote is reliable, but I have heard that idea often,
yes. Not about China in particular, but the same thing. I think the idea
is true.

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Cheers, Carlos.