13 June, 2005

windows and opium

I’m really enjoying Milton J Madison’s blog, I’m not always in agreement but he can lay out some keen analogies, for instance, his argument that Microsoft China business strategy is based on the opium trade.:

Estimates are that Microsoft Windows piracy rate is as high as 90% in China. This study says that software piracy in the Asia region is not as prevalent as in Eastern Europe but that 3 of the top four countries with the highest piracy rates are in Asia…
So, why does Microsoft take such a soft approach to both piracy in China and the rest of Asia and pander to the absurd needs of the Chinese propaganda machine by banning content and restricting the usage of certain words?
My theory is that Microsoft probably knows that the fight against piracy is futile. But if they get China and the rest of Asia addicted to the operating system, like the British use of opium to subdue China in the middle of the 19th century, they will have much more leverage in the future.

Also, note the post on whether the Chinese government is purging investment bankers.

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