Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers

slashthedot writes "Microsoft caught some Indian retailers selling pirated copies of Windows by sending in a dummy customer to ask for a copy of Windows to be installed on their PC. The dealers claim that they are promoting MS software in this way. One retailer said: 'Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets.'"

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I dislike MS

[pembo13]

for multiple reasons. Yet I feel that they are fully within their right to stop people from making a profit by selling their product without passing on an agreed percentage of that profit back to MS. If you can't afford it download it of the net, but don't go selling it to others. I would personally suggest Linux, but I guess that would come out as trolling here at /.