[mdlug] Interesting spam [Fwd: ???????????? ?? Microsoft - ????????? ???????????????? ?????? ???????]

[Aaron Kulkis]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> 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?

The interesting thing here is, even with Windows going
for FREE (as described above), there *IS* a healthy
Linux community in Russia and Ukraine.

Most developers prefer Linux because it's easier to
develop on than Windows.