"Мкдональдсовский" подход к ведению бинеса: на перспективу

Proprietary software - II



Bill Gates was talking to business school students at the University of Washington and was quoted in the the July 20, 1998, Fortune Magazine as saying:

"Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. 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."

The next decade is now and in the eyes of Bill Gates, among many others, "the software" and Trusted Computing go hand-in-hand.

Cambridge University professor href="http://www.p2pnet.net/issue04/issues.html" target="_blank">Ross Anderson has a fascinating FAQ on the latter.

There are many, many references within Ross' FAQ. For the moment, we've merely reproduced the body copy here. We'll post the complete text later. Please go here for the full version, with links and references.