Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft reaches settlements with traders caught selling illegal software
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> | Settlements have successfully been reached with 12 resellers, who all
> | admitted to hard disk loading and selling software illegally.
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> | The sellers were named as: Charisma Computers of Manchester; 1Hr
> | Computers of Denton; Boss Systems of Duns; Annecto Computers of
> | Droylsden; Computer Warehouse of Manchester; Hi-Tec of Cheadle;
> | Intellect Computers of Whitefield; Swift Computers of Wellington;
> | Comp-u-Tel of Thatcham; ICN Computers of Newbury; PWRTech of Nottingham;
> | and Unique Computers (UK) of Leicester.
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These guys should have downloaded and sold Ubuntu preloaded on the machines.
You are allowed that with free as in freedom not price software.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
Its a lot cheaper than having your balls cut off by Micoshaft's
greedy lawyers.
> http://www.scmagazineuk.com
Microsoft-reaches-settlements-with-traders-caught-selling-illegal-software
article/131438/
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> ?They?ll get sort of addicted, and then we?ll somehow figure out how to
> collect sometime in the next decade.?
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> --Bill Gates
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> Recent:
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> Microsoft Gulf coordinates with Bahrain Ministry of Information on latest
> software piracy offensives in Manama
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> | Microsoft GulfMicrosoft GulfLoading..., a member of the Business
> | Software Alliance (BSA), the leading global organisation that is the
> | voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware
> | partners before governments and in the international marketplace, has
> | announced successful anti-piracy raids by the Bahrain Ministry of
> | InformationBahrain Ministry of InformationLoading... (MoI) on two
> | resellers operating in Manama. The offensives highlighted Bahrain's
> | comprehensive nationwide anti-piracy program and its thrust to make the
> | capital city in particular a model of a piracy-free environment.
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> http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090121082920/Microsoft%20Gulf
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> Anti-piracy day? No thanks
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> | Today is Microsoft?s self-declared Global Anti-Piracy Day. No surprise
> | then that the local arm of the Business Software Alliance has been
> | ringing up journalists over the past couple of days with the ominous
> | news that South Africa is losing between R2.8 billion to software
> | pirates every year.
> |
> | As usual, the BSA statements are sweeping and presumptive.
> |
> | For a start, South Africa doesn?t really lose all this money. Most of
> | the licensing money heads straight overseas to companies like Microsoft
> | and Adobe with this country holding on to very little of it.
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