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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Romania: Software piracy made us what we are today
>>
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>> | Experts have called for stronger action from Romanian officials on
>> | software piracy, with prosecutors encouraged to stop dismissing
>> | potential cases. The International Intellectual Property Alliance
>> | in 2006 said dismissals are acting as a disincentive on police to
>> | clamp down on criminals, who are mostly end-users and distributors.
>
> They have achived in total nothing.
> It they had invested in open source instead,
> then they would have achieved a great deal more with world's
> biggest software development workshop churning out
> every conceivable software appliance and bringing
> home billions of dollars in revenue - a task which is now
> left to others.
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/02/romania_microsoft_piracy/
I would not say that "they achieved in total nothing", but Linux would have
given them a great edge and an opportunity to offer added value to the
global market. Just look at Kerala's decision to put its brains in Debian.
This could lead to a blooming valley of technology that's found nowhere
else... France and Germany recently went in the same direction... also a
city in Korea, whose OSS (path to Linux) transition was declared a "high
success".
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