On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Recent studies by IDC/BSA estimated East & Southern Africa’s loss in revenue at over 100 Million Dollars in 2010 (Kenya’s Piracy rate is currently at 79%). A modest reduction will create more thousands of jobs, boost economic growth and generate millions of dollars in taxes for Government. Your refusal to use pirated software is your contribution to this course.
This is copy-and-paste FUD -- See : http://www.microsoft.com/africa/pressportal/Pages/Article.aspx?id=1 Notice search and replace of East and Southern Africa with Nigeria and 100 with 120 There must be a FUD generator spreadsheet template somewhere in the microsoft offices
This is, for lack of better terminology, a fresh steaming pile. Preventing this capital flight will strengthen our economy more than the meagre taxes. Further from this, aren't licenses exempt from VAT? Our current USD fluctuation was caused, apparently, by the sudden transfer of 200M USD from the economy. How would allowing a further 100M USD to leave the economy create more jobs? And how exactly will using original MS software create jobs? Isn't the premise that it's more stable? Hence you won't need as many support staff to maintain a network? And support is outsourced to India anyway?