Nice email. >From MS'c point of view its quite fair. I personally would say its time for us to stop using stolen (and yes, piracy is stealing; if you about licencing) softwares. If you cant do it then use free ones for least or just buy it. But hey, MS is overpriced and over-rated. Linux is underpriced and still alien to most people.
On 6/1/08, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Shahidul Shuvra <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <s_shuvera%40yahoo.com>> > Date: 2008/5/23 > Subject: [bdresearchers] Cracking Down on Pirated Software users > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <bdresearchers%40yahoogroups.com> > > Dear Group Members & My Readers, > > Immediate after joining US embassy at Dhaka as an ambassador James F > Moriarty wrote an article in favor of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). > My > readers might see the articles published in English and Bangla daily > newspapers. He wrote about Mustafa Jabbar and Tareque Masud as if he is a > great user of Bijoy software and genuine fan of Tareque Masud's films. > > He is gravely concerned on our domestic Intellectual Property Rights > Violations. He did not write any thing about piracy of international > software and CDs. He knows well the voice against international software > piracy will be rose when piracy of domestic hi-tech products will be ended. > This is the software diplomacy to say against domestic software piracy to > rise voice against international software piracy like Microsoft's products. > It will not be hard for you to understand ending software piracy in > Bangladesh is his one of the missions. > > Already letters from Copy Right Register's office were sent to some offices > to remove pirated software and to install licensed software. Our government > has been pressurized by donors, multinational companies, local companies > and > diplomats to start cracking down on pirated software users. Especially > Microsoft is seeking way to recover their funded charity money from > Bangladesh by businesses. Once free of cost Microsoft offered training to > some government offices to build good relation. Few months back they > trained > SSF on information security. Already they established well connection among > government offices and security departments. So this connection and well > relation with authority will be used for raiding pirated software users. > > Soon taskforce will raid deferent offices with the people of Copy Right > offices to arrest pirated software users, book and movie sellers. Another > thing is that an office with international staffs will be launched here to > monitor software piracy. So it is alarming for those people who use pirated > software and pirated books for learning computer science. I do not want to > include CDs of movies and songs with this issue because sudden banning > pirated software may hamper our computer education and development > activities. > > I am not great friend of pirated books, CDs and software; but I see the > issue with critical eyes. This issue is complicated and thus we should foil > any conspiracy to impose ban on pirated software hurriedly and without > plan. > Last year maliciously a group of people try to band us world fourth pirated > software user. I am attaching the main report from US with this letter > where > you will find some of people exaggerated about Bangladesh. In fact, > Bangladesh did no get remarkable place in the report. According to WTO we > have option to develop ourselves by copying software till 2013 and we can > also replicate pharmaceutical products till 2016. > > Our government should make a good policy and plan along with corporate > houses, donors, businessmen etc for ending the pirated software installing. > Our copy right office is full of inefficient people and so they are not > competent enough to deal the complicated issue. > > I have more to write, but want to write after my readers' feedbacks. > > Best regards, > > Shahidul K K Shuvra > > The Independent, Editorial Department > > Editor of IT and Science pages > > Cell- 01715245459 > > 8911919 (res) > > -- > Best, > Z > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Shakil Islam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
