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Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the same-as-a-frosty dept.

nick_davison writes "The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has reached a deal with the Indonesian government on pirated software - which is believed to affect around 50,000 government PCs. Under the deal, Indonesia will pay $1 per copy and agree to buy legally in the future. Indonesia's information minister, Sofyan Djalil, said, "Microsoft is being realistic. They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it." Somehow it seems unlikely the same rules will be applied to developing companies and poorer individuals in the United States."

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  1. Re:Their information minister is clueless by SpiffyMarc · · Score: 4, Informative

    But you sure as hell can be forced to do things legally.

    Not by a corporation.

  2. Microsoft denies this by rgoree · · Score: 5, Informative

    A little more research on google news shows that MS is denying this report.

  3. Re:Quite unlikely by flossie · · Score: 4, Informative
    if MS had demanded the full price for each installation, they would be bashed for beating up on a small country.

    Whatever else Indonesia may be, it is not a small country. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. ... Area - comparative: slightly less than three times the size of Texas

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    flossie

    Write now. Defend liberty

  4. Re:How about by The+Lion+of+Comarre · · Score: 4, Informative


    http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s135 6362.htm

    ...
    ELEANOR HALL: Is it the case that the Indonesian legal system is based on the presumption of guilt?

    TIM LINDSAY: No, that is completely false. As a matter of fact it is completely the opposite. The system in Indonesia is the same as the system in Australia, and our Commonwealth system. Article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code specifically states that the burden of proof to prove guilt in a criminal case lies with the prosecution.

    In other words, that unless the prosecution can prove guilt, the person is innocent. So the common furphy that is being circulated in Australia in the media at the moment that people in the Indonesian system are presumed guilty until proven innocent is totally false.
    ...