Maybe Bill Gates Should Stop Making Predictions

Just days after Bill Gates didn't solve the spam problem by the deadline he had promised two years ago, it looked like he might be spouting off again. This time, Reuters says he's claiming that we'll be able to beat software piracy in China and India -- though, he's giving a longer timeline. This time it's 10 years... and the details actually suggest it's not quite as crazy as the Reuters headline suggests. He wasn't saying that Microsoft would beat software piracy in those countries, but that the level of unauthorized copying would decrease to about the same level as in the US and Europe. Also, he seems to be indicating that this is a natural progression as the local economy builds its own software industry.