Comments on: Counterfeiting Versus Free Software in Kenya http://techrights.org/2012/01/09/kenya-and-foss/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2012/01/09/kenya-and-foss/comment-page-1/#comment-132312 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:43:13 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=57168#comment-132312 Counterfeiting helps Microsoft because it locks users into the file formats and protocols of Microsoft and takes the place of competing software. If they are running a counterfeit Windows, they are not running Red Hat or Ubuntu.

These raids are probably intended as high pressure sales calls. However, with luck the Kenyan business men and women can take it as a wake up call, summon their dignity and do what Erine Ball Guitars did:
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

If we are lucky there are thousands of Kenyan businesses that have been burned and will turn to FOSS to prevent getting burned again.

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