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Gates: Chinese Pirates Are Great for Microsoft

Interesting little story here in The Times of London, old chap, about how Microsoft actually figured out how to profit from piracy in China. Leave it to Bill Gates and friends to turn a sow's ear into yet another expensive silk purse.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 20, 2007


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