>>>FWIW, these are not Microsoft's findings. Its the Business Software Alliance's.
>>Well it was you who told me that they came from MS. Here's what you wrote:"As for piracy not being high in the US, this is hwat I see from MS:".
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>I quoted from Microsoft's web site, yes, but the finding's are not Microsoft's.
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Well you didn't say so until now, did you?

>>And as I said, those figures are meant to impress the reader/hearer, but a moment's thought has one asking one's self: Who's taxes?...Who's jobs?...Who's wages? They tell us nothing in fact.
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>Taxes, jobs and wages in the US, it looks like to me. Is someones job at one company less important than at another?

Yea, "it looks like to you". That's exactly what they want the reader to think. But they don't say, do they. They get a much higher return by leaving it to the reader to surmise than to state the facts clearly themselves.

In general we all have got to stop accepting "facts" as truth unless they fully disclose the whole situation. The statement in question is far from doing so.