Pirated Software's Problem
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| The other thing is a distribution problem. OpenOffice at the local
| market costs the same as Microsoft Office. If I download OpenOffice
| it actually costs me more money, since here I pay up to $0.10 per
| MByte for traffic over my DSL link.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=116907
Related:
Pirated Vista dirt cheap on Latin American streets
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| Days after a beaming Bill Gates unveiled his much-vaunted Windows Vista
| software at a retail price of $400 for the premium version, Latin American
| street vendors are hawking pirate copies for under $10.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070206:MTFH76488_2007-02-06_20-12-09_N06333309&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/3xpqxz
Microsoft has no plans to close Vista upgrade loophole
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| Microsoft can't be bothered to close the loophole that allows
| users to install Vista upgrade versions even when they're not
| upgrading.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37453
Why piracy kills Open Source
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| Because for them, the price is the same.
|
| So, please, Microsoft, defend your own products, and don't allow users to
| use pirated versions. You'll be doing the best for the Open Source
| products.
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http://youmaybeinterrupting.com/desktop.php?view&postid=12&a=apps%2FBlog%3B%3B
Piracy figures are inflated say criminologists
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| A draft report by the Australian Institute of Criminology says
| copyright holders are making up piracy figures in order to sway
| governments to their side.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35580
Why Piracy Hurts Open Source
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| "...John looks at this from a different direction. He shows you why
| software piracy hurts Open Source software--the free stuff you are using."
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http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000266
Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux
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| Now comes the really interesting question. With Vista's activation
| technology, Microsoft has the power to stamp out piracy everywhere. But
| will it choose to do so everywhere? After all, if folks in China or
| Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run
| it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee. In which case
| they may finally wake up to the attractions of free software such as
| Linux - and it's easy to imagine what that will do to Microsoft's
| plans for world domination.
|
| It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
| of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
Russian Government Will Migrate to OpenSource
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| Russia decided to follow after EU countries, where opensource
| solutions are more spread then in Russia. Currently, some Russian
| companies can offer their own Desktop Linux OS (the major companies
| are ASPLinux, ALTLinux, Linux-Online and LinuxCenter).
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http://danays.blogspot.com/2006/12/russian-government-will-migrate-to.html
Gates: Russia Tackling Software Piracy
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| Microsoft Corp. chairman and co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday
| that Russia has made progress tackling software piracy, a problem
| that has threatened the country's bid to join the World Trade
| Organization.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061107/russia_bill_gates.html?.v=2
Microsoft snubs Gorbachev over piracy plea
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| However Microsoft has said it did not bring the case against Ponosov,
| this was done by the public prosecutor's office in Russia.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37449
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
|
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
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.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/02/romania_microsoft_piracy/
Chinese attitude on buying Vista
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| I've mentioned above,the price of Vista is higher than RMB2000 (about
| USD257) may not shake users in developed countries, but do you know it
| is equal to the average monthly salary in China's economic center
| Shanghai!So please take this fact into consideration before
| criticize our behavior of buying pirate softwares.
|
| recent survey of public opinion from China's portal NetEase shows that 81%
| of netizens think Microsoft is forcing them to use pirate Vista...
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http://ya.iyee.cn/2007/02/chinese-attitude-on-buying-vista.html
Beware: Half of Pirated Vista Is Malware
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| About half of all downloads that claim to be free versions of
| Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious
| Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned today.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003622.html
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