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Editor's Blog: SAP-Oracle news spreads
Comment I mentioned open source already, and time will tell whether SAP's position ends up sounding complacent, but a final consideration is pirated software. He cited software moving on, through innovation or, say, legal changes beyond the software that... [23 Mar 2007]
Opinion: China's IPR woes
Comment Some musicians I met in Beijing said they longed for their work to be pirated because it gives them more exposure to their audiences. The police happily patrol the doors to the indoor market, while street sellers outside hassle tourists to buy... [14 Aug 2006]
Photos: China's street pirates
Photo And all the way down this strip people sell pirated software and DVDs. There are hundreds of shops that sell computers, software and electronic components. This computer market, just off the strip, sells legal goods and software. [14 Aug 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 15
Comment Monday: Down south with the sellers of pirated software. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. [24 Jun 2006]
Software piracy still rife in the UK
News Here 27 per cent of PC software is pirated and the BSA estimates this has led to $1.8bn in losses for software publishers. Emerging markets such as China, India and Russia saw single-digit drops in the percentage of illegal software installed on... [23 May 2006]
Leader: Piracy crackdown no good for China
Leader Bill Gates and the Redmond crew are probably very concerned at how much of their software is being pirated. And fast development is one of China's biggest goals. China has to be seen to be taking a harsh, no-nonsense approach to this but it would... [21 Apr 2006]
Microsoft agrees $1.2bn deal with Lenovo
News Up to the point China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, pirated copies of Microsoft software were in common use, including in government agencies. It is believed that many Chinese consumers buy PCs without operating systems and later... [18 Apr 2006]
Pirate hit with $1m fine for software giants
News In addition to the pirated software, they found documents showing that Chen had sold counterfeit Symantec products with a retail value of more than $9.9m, Symantec said. A Symantec spokesman said: "This guy was one of the largest distributors of... [29 Sep 2005]
China's long road to copyright
Comment On the software front, China ranks among the world's worst offenders for piracy: about 90 per cent of the software installed on PCs in China is pirated, compared with an average of 35 per cent worldwide and only 21 per cent in the US. [19 Sep 2005]
Microsoft: Grass up the pirates and get money off
News Microsoft has extended its anti-piracy olive branch to China, offering users of bootleg copies of Windows a 50 per cent discount on a legitimate version if they come clean on how they got their pirated copy. [04 Mar 2005]
Microsoft gives away software...
News The company believes that a large percentage of PCs that are sold without Windows eventually run a pirated version of the software. Those languages were chosen because of their geographic diversity and because they represent comparatively high... [28 Oct 2004]
Cheap Windows comes to Russia
News A study released by the Business Software Alliance and IDC in July said 97 per cent of the software in Russia is pirated, a figure bested only by China, Vietnam, Ukraine and Indonesia. Microsoft will release a low-price version of Windows in Russia... [28 Sep 2004]
Microsoft to release stripped down XP to tackle Linux and piracy
News Unlike people who buy pirated software, Starter Edition customers can get patches and updates. In 2000, one of the best-selling books in Beijing was "Flying Against the Wind: Microsoft, IBM and Me," a tell-all book on Microsoft's tactics that was... [11 Aug 2004]
Gates: No cheap Windows for China
News Around half of the software in Korea is pirated, despite aggressive raids by the police. Speaking in China, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said he doesn't know whether discount versions of the company's software will be needed in that country. [05 Jul 2004]
Microsoft touts entry level Windows
News Linux PCs are seen as a threat to Windows partly because buyers are considered likely to replace the operating system with pirated copies of Windows. Countries like Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Japan and Korea are wary of giving monopolistic control... [09 Feb 2004]
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