Re: GDP is income per year
Didn't Microsoft always pay someone to come up with a survey to say that the new version of Windows would boost the UK (or US or EU) economy by some insane figure like £250 bn over 2 years. Thus saying how great this new version of Windows must be - and allowing them to bleat about how piracy was destroying all this lovely value that would accrue to us all - and so how our governments must destroy the pirates forthwith.
On which subject, if video piracy funds terrorism, what does software piracy fund? Cancer perhaps?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
