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It is the Play Book for a Boston Tea Party
Just a few hundred years ago the East India Trading Company used political operatives to get a tax removed. They then reduced the price of tea they sold to the colonies even beyond the tax savings in order to economically harm those they called tea smugglers.

Best I can tell, the founders of the USA were borderline on the smuggling charge. They had fingered out that the Dutch could provide tea without paying a tax to England. The East India Trading Company believed they had PURCHASED a monopoly on tea sold in the USA from the King of England.

Bottom line - a monopoly caused an uprising that lead to a war with England, when seriously there was not that much dissatisfaction.

I suggest that the USA impose a tax on Microsoft in the cause of good China relations that increases the price of Vista in China. This kind of thing, which is called often called product dumping, threaten sales of goods like planes and commerce among nations. It literally is the reason wars are fought.
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Microsoft slashes Vista price in China  Loverock Davidson | 08/03/07
More affordable, sure...  mattnico | 08/03/07
Its all economics  Loverock Davidson | 08/03/07
Is it, now?  mattnico | 08/03/07
Perhaps they should do the price cut in the US and the EU too  zkiwi | 08/03/07
No need to  Loverock Davidson | 08/03/07
What?  zkiwi | 08/03/07
What?  Loverock Davidson | 08/03/07
Because you said...  zkiwi | 08/03/07
Still way too expensive  magcomment | 08/04/07
Misleading info  pa2004 | 08/04/07
Isn't that about the same as US OEM prices?  Michael Kelly | 08/03/07
*snif* *snif* What's that smell?  Chad_z | 08/03/07
Only the cover story  Tim Patterson | 08/03/07
More Pirates  skiplarson | 08/03/07
You, are funny in a slapstick kind of way.  xuniL_z | 08/03/07
*Yawn.*  John Zern | 08/06/07
1.7 Billion in Sales????  mrdood_99205@... | 08/03/07
That's not much for a company their size.  xuniL_z | 08/03/07
Slashed prices in China, what about US?  skylerorlando | 08/03/07
Won't be necessary  Michael Kelly | 08/03/07
Hey, dummies!  BitTwiddler | 08/03/07
It is the Play Book for a Boston Tea Party  mighetto | 08/03/07
you mean dump ms  not of this world | 08/05/07
I was on a torrent site lately downloading some linux distros  Been_Done_Before | 08/03/07
Too funny -  Confused by religion | 08/03/07
Windows to a free alternative"  not of this world | 08/05/07
Still, the pirated copies will probably be better. Less hassles with  DonnieBoy | 08/04/07
OK, but .  not of this world | 08/05/07
And, this probably has more to do with Linux than pirating.  DonnieBoy | 08/04/07
But of course that how you allways see it  John Zern | 08/06/07
What about OEM prices?  evilchocobo | 08/07/07
When will OUR Vista prices be halved?  JoeRJr | 08/19/07

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