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Weighing Profits against Peril
Mark Rasch, 2004-05-24

Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line.

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Weighing Profits against Peril 2004-05-25
Andy
The real difference between this SP2 scenario and the other ones you posed is cost.

In the brakes or fire department examples there are "large" costs involved.

In the SP2 example, the only new cost to Microsoft is the cost of the bandwidth. While it is an actual cost, its pretty close to ze...

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