[luau] NEWS: Microsoft Convicted of Software Piracy (Sept 2001)

[Warren Togami]

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/07/2234251.shtml?tid=3

Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick
by Tina Gasperson

Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a 
French court? Not many people do. The Commercial Court of Nanterre fined 
Microsoft 3 million francs because it illegally included another 
company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line 
animation package.

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And nobody else in segment of the tech media that's traditionally 
anti-Microsoft picked up the story, either -- not Slashdot, nor 
LinuxToday, nor NewsForge. Neither did any of the mainstream tech 
outlets. Nobody noticed this news. Nobody except Peruvian congressman 
Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez. He's the man who is being hailed by some 
as Free Software's version of St. Thomas Aquinas because of his "Summa 
Compulogica" reply to a recent letter sent by Microsoft's Peru general 
manager, Juan Alberto González. That letter was deemed necessary by 
Microsoft because of a Peruvian bill that if passed would require its 
government to buy and use only Free Software.

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