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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 4:07pm

   
   

   wat?

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 4:42pm

   
   

   yes... yes it can... next useless newspost please.

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   John Duncan Yoyo, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 4:43pm

   
   

   Ok they are suing M$ for being ubiquitous through rampant piracy and some sales.
   
   I guess this kinda makes sense if you are trying to sell your own operating system or web browser and the competition is as good as giving their wares away to achieve a kinda of market domination. They got sued by the EU for something like that.
   
   I suspect that the Chinese government will make this issue go away.

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   LOL

   

   Darksurf, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 5:01pm

   
   

   HA ha ha ha ha! The screwer has now become the screwed!
   God, how I longed for this day!

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   Silly

   

   Mike42 (profile), Aug 5th, 2008 @ 5:16pm

   
   

   So Microsoft will be forced to stop doing business in a country where they're not doing business, just having their software pirated? Man, Microsoft sure is screwed. I guess they'll just have to limit their business to paying customers (the horror!)

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   Oh Riely ?

   

   bobbknight, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 5:24pm

   
   

   LOL, it seems the Cowards Anonymous, are without clue.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 5:56pm

   
   

   moronic.
   
   looks like China is getting their own little pool of scumbags (aka attorneys) ready to litigate at the drop of a hat.

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   Overcast, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 6:27pm

   
   

   Umm, just because many people are too stupid to use Linux, doesn't mean Microsoft has a Monopoly.

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   WHAT??

   

   Mr Stereotyper, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 6:34pm

   
   

   According to you:
   All chinese men have small penises
   All chinese are bad drivers.
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   and all chinese use pirated software.
   
   Grow up dude!

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    What the heck

    

    WTH, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 6:40pm

    
    

    What's sad is the article has "local software companies scrambling to file suit against Microsoft for violating the law"
    
    At least we know know that the US are not the only ones that are sue happy.

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    Re: WHAT??

    

    Mike (profile), Aug 5th, 2008 @ 7:05pm

    
    

    Um. There's a huge difference between a factual statement, noting that much of the software in use in China is pirated, and making a stereotype about "all" of anything.
    
    I made no stereotyped comment about the Chinese. I merely pointed out that *if* so much software in China is pirated, as is established fact (not all, but much of it), then does that raise questions about the antitrust claim.

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    Pirated Software = China

    

    Freedom, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 8:09pm

    
    

    Sorry, but I think any one in China really buys ANY software.
    
    In the embroidery world, the #1 application used by the majority of the embroidery shops in China has only one sale to someone in China. That's right, the #1 app, has literally one legit sale to that part of world.
    
    Freedom

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    Re: WHAT??

    

    Paul`, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 9:07pm

    
    

    It's a statistical fact, not a stereotype.

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    Depends only on Chinese law

    

    reality, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 9:14pm

    
    

    It depends only on Chinese law, and more importantly how that law is interpreted. Legal opinions by us Americans is irrelevant.

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    lost sale

    

    cram, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 9:21pm

    
    

    Does all of that piracy count as lost sales, or is it just a pointer to MS that they should start selling something else in China?

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    "dumping"

    

    zcat, Aug 5th, 2008 @ 11:14pm

    
    

    It's an interesting situation to be sure. When Microsoft sells their software hugely below cost to maintain a monopoly position, that's likely to be seen as illegal 'dumping'. But there's nothing illegal about having copy protection that sucks.

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    Actually...

    

    Tim, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 9:01am

    
    

    Maybe the flip-side of restrictive license models is that, having *tried* to enforce a paying system, they should be responsible for breaches of the algorithms used too?

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    I just want to know where to get some

    

    SkumBag, Sep 19th, 2008 @ 8:18am

    
    

    Quit screwing around; where can I get this pirated chinese software.

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