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    Default Bill Gates visits Romania (and other loacal oddities)

    http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_63899-...in-Romania.htm

    Article in Romanian (sorry for that but let me translate it for you. The King of Monopoly comes to Romania on 1 of Feburary to meet the President of Ass-Kissing (Mr. Traian Basescu) and the Marble Mayor (Videanu).And for this very special visit, Marble Mayor Videanu (Videanu means The Vaccum in Romanian) has created a black hole in the city funds and now Microsoft emblems are hung all over Bucharest ( Tax payer money inside)

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    Default Re: Bill Gates visits Romania (and other loacal oddities)

    Is Bill Gates about to buy Romania?

    If he is not - then its really a none news item.
    O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean

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    Default Re: Bill Gates visits Romania (and other loacal oddities)

    You are welcoming your American Overlords ???
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    Default Re: Bill Gates visits Romania (and other loacal oddities)

    Quote Originally Posted by Cronos Impera
    http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_63899-...in-Romania.htm

    Article in Romanian (sorry for that but let me translate it for you. The King of Monopoly comes to Romania on 1 of Feburary to meet the President of Ass-Kissing (Mr. Traian Basescu) and the Marble Mayor (Videanu).And for this very special visit, Marble Mayor Videanu (Videanu means The Vaccum in Romanian) has created a black hole in the city funds and now Microsoft emblems are hung all over Bucharest ( Tax payer money inside)

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    I love how you worded that!


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    Default Re: Bill Gates visits Romania (and other loacal oddities)

    This is much more fun.

    Apparently the President of Romania has told Bill Gates how proud he is that software piracy paved the way for the technological advancement of his country.



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    Romania's president delivered an encomium to software piracy during Bill Gates' world tour promoting Windows Vista.

    President Traian Basescu reportedly told Gates that software piracy helped build a vibrant technology industry in Romania.

    Appearing with Gates at the opening of a Microsoft global technology center in Bucharest, he said. "Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania," he said. Cue sound of Microsoft PR jaws dropping.

    "[Piracy] helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry, which has become famous around the world... ten years ago, it was an investment in Romania's friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates."

    Gates is not reported to have responded, but his company campaigns against piracy and works vigorously with prosecutors to bring criminals to justice.

    The Romanian IT service sector is expected to grow 16.8 per cent during the next few years to hit $356m in 2009, according to IDC. However, 72 per cent of software in Romania, one of the EC's newest member states, is pirated according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA). That costs companies like Microsoft $111m in lost revenue each year.

    Experts have called for stronger action from Romanian officials on software piracy, with prosecutors encouraged to stop dismissing potential cases. The International Intellectual Property Alliance in 2006 said dismissals are acting as a disincentive on police to clamp down on criminals, who are mostly end-users and distributors.


    Of course, this is unlikely to be news to Bill, whose empire owes a great deal of its world-wide monopoly to the pirating of its OS. I'd have loved to have seen the PR wonk's face though....
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