I didn't know that Asia actually paid for their software. ;-)

Seriously, I remember seeing numbers that the majority (>50%) of software in China, HK, etc was pirated. Anybody see what I'm talking about?

Drew

On 19 Mar 2002, Numberwhun ***** wrote:

> Gee, I wonder if they are going to try to push
> 'big blue' the same way seeing as how they
> made their public statement commiting 1
> billion dollars to linux. I also read in the
> February issue of Linux Format that the
> Chinese government ( specifically the son of
> the Chinese president ) has created their own
> version called 'Red Flag Linux'. They are
> marketing it to the over 1.2 billion citizens
> of china to replace the Windows operating
> system. They, like everyone else are quite fed
> up with price hikes and crappy OS's.