Microsoft Restricts the Use of Its Products in India
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-12-27 10:46:09 UTC
- Modified: 2009-12-27 10:46:30 UTC
Summary: Microsoft, the "pirate", has decided to put an end to copies of its products that do not bring direct income (purchase price); this involves aggressive action and arrests that would only encourage use of GNU/Linux by sellers
A couple of weeks ago we saw Microsoft engaging in illegal activities in order to fine counterfeiters of its products in India. Microsoft -- not the counterfeiters -- was fined for trial abuse, which was not too surprising given the i4i trial misconduct. Microsoft plays dirty even in the courtroom.
News from India suggests that Microsoft is up for it again.
The CBI on Friday arrested the managing director of a software firm for allegedly carrying out piracy of Microsoft products. The accused, Kamlesh Jha, who heads a Dwarka-based firm, K K Solutions, was a gold certified partner of Microsoft, the complainant in the case.
Yes, Microsoft is sending to jail its gold-certified partners, too.
So typical. Also see:
A managing director of a city based software firm, a gold certified partner of Microsoft, and his associate have been arrested for cheating and forgery of Microsoft products, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Friday.
Only weeks ago, Microsoft publicly said that counterfeiting was not a problem to its business. Prior to that, Microsoft even said that counterfeiting was beneficial to its business. We wrote about this before, e.g. in:
When Microsoft cracks down on illegal copies of its products, then something has clearly gone wrong with the business model.
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“As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.”
--Bill Gates
Comments
Chips B. Malroy
2009-12-27 21:14:57
While it may seem that M$ only goes after businesses, and sellers of counterfeit M$ software, remember the schoolteacher in Russia as an example. What I suggest is, that M$, on the way down will become just like the Hollywood media companies that use the Riaa as a front, and start to sue end users at some point, to increase the bottom line.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-12-27 21:39:16