Bill Gates Quote

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are 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.


Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in "Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998)

Gates, Buffett a bit bearish - CNET News


About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going...

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going...

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going...

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going...