http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/ Engadget Comments for Russia drops piracy case against teacher http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=ru|en&u=http://knoppix.ru/letter2edu.shtml]]>Feb 16th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
I think Ipods are ridiculously over priced. The margin they have on that is crazy. That cannot justify my going to a store and stealing one. ]]>Feb 15th 2007 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/DO YOU WANT TO BE PIRATED?!?
WE DO NOT!!!]]>Feb 15th 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Thats supposed to be from The Bittorrent community, but I accidentally used current user.
Oopsie.]]>Feb 15th 2007 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
I am afraid you are in no position to lecture people about what is wrong or right until you live in such a place.]]>Feb 16th 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 16th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
The school has no budget. Its choices are: Use free software like Linux, or pirate commercial software like Windows. Either way, MS gets no money - but a new group of young minds will be trained to use Linux, or Windows. Which do you think MS would prefer?]]>Feb 16th 2007 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
You can talk about the financial loss being lesser when you "copy" software, because the stores dont lose anything but otherwise its the same thing.]]>Jul 30th 2007 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
clerk's wage per month:
~USD 700 (US)
~RM 700 (Malaysia)

Milk per bottle:
~ US 1.5 (US)
~ RM 1.75 (Malaysia)

eggs per dozen:
~ US 2.5 (US)
~ RM 1.9 (Malaysia)

OK. now you get the picture the value of wages and daily products are around the same. let's see why malaysians dont buy original software.

Vista: US 300, RM 1200
Office: US 450, RM 1600
AutoCAD: ~ US1500, RM 9000
Games: US 50, RM 270.

if you're clerk, how do you expect to buy ONE game that cost as much as your half month wage? when you can just buy one game for mere USD 1 in malaysia. without piracy, like russian said, poor countries HAVE NO CHANCE whatsoever to compete with big guys in IT.

have a heart. just because these developers can't buy mercedes instead of toyota, that doesn't mean they have it harder than the guy who is struggling to make a living. ]]>Feb 16th 2007 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
Its like saying you should give your wealth to the homeless for free, just because you are richer than them. WOuld you do that? So why should the rich not get richer if they deserve it?

Ifa malaysian cant afford the software, he shouldnt buy it.Isnt there the "free" Linsux shit? ]]>Feb 15th 2007 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/i just hope gates doesn't take over the mobile phone world because you won't be able to escape from critical errors or viruses]]>Mar 6th 2007 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/]]>Jul 6th 2007 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
Just because a country can't afford something doesn't mean they don't "deserve" it. What kind of ridiculous judgement is that? Who gave you that right to say such a thing?

If bread went to $100 a loaf globally (just bear with me as an example), and people in developing nations couldn't afford it, but we still could, would that mean that they "deserve" to die? No. And guess what? Some people's livelihoods depend on making money in this global market...

Think about your fellow human before you speak, folks.]]>Feb 15th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
When I read Prodigy1983's first comment, I thought: Ohoh, smells like a libertarian.]]>Feb 17th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 15th 2007 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 16th 2007 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/Feb 16th 2007 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/
secondly, though the guy didn't pay for the computers out of his own pocket, i don't think he can afford a bottle of cristall. an average wage of a school techer in russia is about $230-250 a month. so ponosov will probably buy a bottle of "sovetskoe" sparkling wine.]]>Feb 16th 2007 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/PONOS is Russian for diarrhea. Microsoft and the Russian gov't should know that you can never win against diarrhea. You gamble with it, you lose. Every time.]]>Feb 16th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/russia-drops-piracy-case-against-teacher/May 7th 2007 1:00PM