Uncle Bill's act from an economic prespective

When talking about bill gate, we should bare in mind that he is one of, or the most successful business person on the universe; therefore, such an act by offering softwares to the Chinese market for a symbolic price is a clever idea. From and ethical and social responsibility perspective, business people always face the dilemma of wether take a part of the revenues and spend it in a social responsible way, or reinvest it in the capital in order to generate further returns. In the case of bill gate, I think that he chose the first alternative by supplying a software that is usually sold at 150$ in the US for 3$. Actually we can see that this is a very successful act interms of dual care and social responsibility; as well as it can be seen as a long term investment; first, bill gate had becoming even more popular in china and all over the world after such an act; besides, from a financial perspective, selling an intangible (a software) for any price will generate a profit; in this case, Microsoft had already covered its fixed and variable costs for developing the software, so by selling the software either on CDs or online for 3$ to a huge market like the one of China, will definitely generate profit for Microsoft although with a lower margin. Finally, talking about Chinese market, we know that it is the leader of counterfeiting, so bill gate had no way but selling his product at price that is close to the one of the counterfeited product, keeping in mind that is original. Also, i think by selling the operating system for a symbolic price of 3$ is only a hook for the consumers because after buying a genuine operating system, the computer might be able to work only with genuine softwares such as antiviruses and other tools. Talking about Morocco, i can see a great similarity between this latter and the Chinese market in terms of supply and demand for the counterfeited products, so the same strategy used by Mr. Bill will be helpful in Morocco too, except for the selling price, since Moroccans can afford a higher one; keeping in mind the great difference between the minimum wage in China (50$/month) and the one in Morocco (250$/month).