Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Thursday 15 February 2007 19:04 \__
>>> 'Charges have been dropped against a Russian school principal who
>>> faced up to five years in prison for software piracy, according to
>>> Russia's state news agency'
>>>
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/15/HNrussianpiracycase_1.html
>> [and possibly behind the scenes:] Microsoft has instructed their
>> BSA equivalent in Russia to do whatever it takes to stop the mass
>> migration to Linux.
>>
>> We shall see how this works out...
> It does show that some well focused journalism can put pressure on
> organisations even as rich as Microsoft.
Actually I was going to attribute the U-turn to the COLA Trolls weekly
field report to Sweaty Ballmer, but maybe you're right.
Then again, AFAIK a large proportion if the warez haxxors are Russian
or Baltic in origin (Mafia ties, Vi@gra, Pr0n, etc.), and as Microsoft
know only too well, nothing spreads mindshare more effectively than
piracy. So this whole "crackdown" business is a bit of a
shoot-in-foot exercise, not to mention hugely damaging to their
already flailing PR, especially in ÐÐÑÑÐÑ.
Maybe Sweaty Ballmer should just cut a deal with the
Dolgoprudnenskaya, and stop wasting his precious sweat glands on
trying to reform them. After all, they share a common bond of ethics.
--
K.
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