Comments on: Beijing considering antitrust suit against Microsoft? (UPDATE)

China has long benefited from stealing Windows. Now it wants to sue Microsoft for charging for it?

[qwert_world]

I fail to see your logic, Matt Asay.

1. China has long benefited from stealing Microsoft's software. Now it's considering suing because Microsoft charges too much for the software it pirates?

Are you saying NO ONE in China is using legitimate copies of microsoft software?

2. But isn't this the land of piracy where Microsoft's software is basically free, whatever the list price may say?

So you think using pirated software is okay?

3.Microsoft has used piracy as a strategic weapon in China.

And yet people like you keep complaining about China not being effective in stopping piracy.

Conclusion: you are an idiot.

[gcribner]

Gave me a good laugh. The Chinese Government creates various anti-competitive barriers to direct foreign competition and barely lifts a finger to stop the rampant piracy of intellectual property are complaining about Microsoft's pricing policies? That's rich. Why don't the Chinese by Apple computers and use alternative Office productivity software? I forgot, genuine Apple hardware cost many times the cost of the operating system and MS office software put together.

[FREDY112]

wow! that was pretty brutal!!!

[kartikshah25]

I do not understand what Matt is trying to highlight. The Chinese Government is looking at legitimate to inquire about the high price of software.
With piracy the government does not earn anything in tax revenues,hence would prefer to reduce piracy. But till the time MS does not reduce prices, piracy will be rampant.
Hence the logic of the government seems to be fare. If MS strategy is to provide pirated copies to home users making then dependent on MS software and then fleece the enterprise users to earn profits, then it is predator pricing and the company should pay the price for that.

[Understarsidream]

I'm sorry but this blog makes almost no sense. Qwert_world is right, he's an idiot.

[gcribner]

So, it is because Cisco charges to much for their products that a few Chinese companies are stealing their IP and producing routers with counterfeit Cisco chips in them that are sold back to the American market. Damn those American companies for not selling things to the Chinese at extremely low prices and forcing them to become thieves.

Maybe Matt is just trying to point out how farcical it is that China is complaining about anti-competitive acts when they themselves have an over flowing closet of skeletons.