Re: [mdlug] Interesting spam [Fwd: Лицензионное ПО Microsoft - легальное функционирование вашего бизнеса]

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 24, 2008 8:20 AM, Dave Arbogast <mdlug3 at arb.net> wrote:
> My wife is from the Ukraine and I've been there 3 times. In the former
> USSR it is common practice for computer shops to simply pirate all of
> the MS products. Most people buy systems build at the shops and are
> happy to get their "free" copy of XP in russian. Even the laptops sold
> there are from SE Asia and come w/o OS. The pirated MS works just fine
> for them. Its hard for them to justify spending 6 weeks salary on an MS
> license. We are running such a copy here, but I bought a license for XP
> and applied it to her Russian version. It did not care the license was
> for US version and it was being applied to a Russian version.

What about OpenOffice?
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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