) Comment: Who is more afraid of "tomato garden" than Microsoft "?

Piracy makes the cost of obtaining the best software almost zero, so in this malformed market mechanism, everyone's computer is filled with the best software, simple Graphic Processing also uses Adobe's latest Photoshop CS3, so "winners can eat it all". Software with poor Functionality can have a place at the reserve price, but in the face of the best software of 0 yuan, the space for survival is lost.

Piracy, as its name implies, is a product that steals copyright without permission. Although almost everyone is using pirated software due to national conditions, everyone knows that this is not bright enough. Of course, there are exceptions in all things. The opposite is true. Many of them are still somewhat famous, for example, the book, challenge Microsoft's hegemony, Mr. Fang Xingdong, who is famous all over the world, and many so-called "sympathy for the sufferings of the people", or fight against all kinds of unfair and oppression fighters in the Post-modern banners. In their view, no matter what means they use, as long as they can combat Microsoft, which is in the "hegemony" status, it is "anti-monopoly ". Therefore, using pirated software, especially in China at present, is justified because piracy is "Broken (Microsoft, or include software vendors that are in the "hegemony" status ". To be honest, this is to break the monopoly in the market. To be honest, it is also related to the national and national cloud. It is a pity that anyone who understands Economics can understand the so-called "piracy can break monopoly" and other comments with a little analysis.

We know that in the real economic environment, any behavior or choice is costly, so we also need to consider the cost. The cost here is the cost in the broad sense, not the money cost in the narrow sense. Of course, this does not need to be said. In reality, it may be extremely rare to choose not to consider costs (even if there is a behavior that does not consider costs, mostly because the cost is too high), we often say "Think Twice", "value for money", "Don't buy expensive, select the correct one.

Next let's take a look at this question: "give" you a car. Do you want a Mercedes-Benz or Charley? I think most people will choose the former without thinking about it. However, if the problem is that you have to pay to "buy" A car, will you still choose a Mercedes-Benz in a neat way? I'm afraid most people will make different choices.

Why are there different answers to seemingly identical questions? The key lies in that the first question implies that the choice of Mercedes and Charley has the same cost-both "give", and the result is undoubtedly the biggest choice. To answer the second question, we must consider the price factor. Although the two options have different benefits and different costs, we will naturally make a decision on the amount of renewal.

Back to the software issue, one feature of pirated software is that it lacks the price mechanism in the normal market. That is to say, there is no price difference in the pirated market, and there is no "pricing strategy" in the market ", because it can provide almost identical and extremely low-cost software products-whether it is a lite version or a luxury version, whether it is an outdated version or the latest version, the cost is almost the same as low. Since there is no need to consider the cost difference, the user's choice is naturally the latest, the best, and the most functional software, which is equivalent to the above example, people choose to face the first problem. The actual situation is also true-many of my friends have to use the latest version of Photoshop to make the most basic image scaling. The pursuit of the latest version and the most functional software seems to have become a habit for most users. But in this way, the "xiali" and "Fukang" in the software market are facing the fate of "killing all", and they could have taken part of the market by relying on reasonable price policies-imagine, if the price of the software is not very different, will you purchase a newer and more complete version for a feature that is not needed or that is not so urgently needed? Because of the existence of pirated software, all software directly faces the most powerful competitors. It can be said that because piracy eliminates the price difference, all software starts to compete in an unfair environment, and the pirated market adopts the naked "Winner-all" rule, only the latest and most powerful products can survive. (Of course, developers of these software have no benefits, but large companies are more capable of undertaking Piracy Losses ). As a result, not only the developers of the best software have not been rewarded, but they have taken a different path. The roads like slowly growing software have been killed by piracy. piracy has become a "Monopoly" helper, to help the "monopolizer" attack the city and sweep the world, how can they "break the monopoly" and "maintain competition? Furthermore, while promoting the "monopoly status", monopoly manufacturers have not obtained the corresponding benefits, and the benefits have been stolen by hackers. What the "Piracy reason" commentator hopes to create is a malformed market where the weak is deprived of growth opportunities and the strong is deprived of real interests?

It is precisely because of this that we can find that piracy is not a "Monopoly" such as Microsoft, because they have the protection of foreign markets and are able to bear Piracy Losses; on the contrary, Kingsoft and so on are not in a "Monopoly" status, but software companies with some strength. The truth is simple: Maybe WPS is different from office, but the price advantage is clear, now, we can easily pull WPS to the Office's middleware. It's strange that lightweight players and heavyweight players compete on the same stage without losing.-Is there no such comparison!

Here, I can't help but remember that in the debate on socialist economics in the last century, Professor mices, the leader of Austrian economics, has repeatedly stressed the importance of price, the market that leaves the price must be a malformed market. Let's take a look at piracy today!