[General] Arab League and Microsoft in software piracy initiative

[Majed B.]

Bashar, the actual cost of the license was about 50,000 but since they
were using pirated copies on almost all machines, MS filed a law suite
for that high figure.

It's easy for you to say remove MS office & use OO.o, but you haven't
dealt with typical employee mentality. Back in Yousifi, Finance
department employees *demanded* Office 2007 because it can handle
1000,000 rows, not the typical 64,000 in OO.o & office 2003 and less.
Of course, there's the untold reason: It's pretty!
When they complained about performance, I'd tell them switch to 2003 :p

The problem with companies here is that they just purchase any
software they need from Hawally & don't consider buy the original as
part of the budget. They assume: Software -> Free. As if the
developers who worked to make it deserve no money :/

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
<bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> 250,000KD ? madre laish!
>
> i heard couple of stories here and there regarding the same, they could just
> uninstall msoffice and install openoffice !
>
>
>
> Majed B. wrote, On 09/28/2009 05:36 PM:
>
> Believe it or not, Microsoft has been visiting/raiding some big
> companies in Kuwait lately, inspecting their license usage (or lack
> of).
>
> I know of 2 companies with at least 400 users, where the first got
> slammed with a law suite and paid well over 250,000 KD, and the other
> was almost slapped with a law suite but they settled with MS.
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
> <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
>
>
> The Arab League, Microsoft Corp. and Khasawneh & Associates confirmed on
> Sunday the launch of the Arab Intellectual Property Centre, an online portal
> providing a central hub for ‘best practice’ sharing and legal resources on
> intellectual property in the Arab region.
>
> http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568678-arab-league-microsoft-launch-arab-intellectual-property-centre
>
> http://www.arabipcentre.com/
>
>
> so Binkhaldoun st. is going to be killed soon ? doubt it ;)
>
>
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       Majed B.