If Everyone's Using Your Pirated Software, Are You Still A Monopolist?
from the questions-questions-questions dept
Apparently there's a new antitrust law in China that has local software companies scrambling to file suit against Microsoft for violating the law. However, Business Week has a rather pertinent question: if the vast majority of the Microsoft software in use in China is of the "pirated" variety, can Microsoft actually be held responsible for antitrust violations? After all, it's not directly responsible for that "monopoly" in the first place.
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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
God, how I longed for this day!
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Silly
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Oh Riely ?
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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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WHAT??
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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Re: WHAT??
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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What the heck
At least we know know that the US are not the only ones that are sue happy.
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Pirated Software = China
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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Depends only on Chinese law
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lost sale
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"dumping"
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Actually...
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I just want to know where to get some
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