*BUCHAREST, Romania Pirated Microsoft Corp.
(MSFT<javascript:stockSearch('MSFT');>)
software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian
President Traian Basescu <javascript:siteSearch('Traian Basescu');> told the
company's co-founder, Bill Gates <javascript:siteSearch('Bill Gates');>, on
Thursday.*
Basescu was meeting the software giant's chairman in Bucharest to celebrate
the opening of a Microsoft <#> global technical center in the Romanian
capital.
"Piracy helped the young generation discover computers <#>. It set off the
development of the IT industry in Romania," Basescu said during a joint news
conference with Gates.
"It 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 made no comment.
Former communist Romania, which has just joined the *European
Union*<javascript:siteSearch('European Union');>,
introduced anti-piracy legislation 10 years ago but copyright infringements
are still rampant.
Experts say some 70 percent of software used in Romania is pirated, and
salesmen still visit office buildings in central Bucharest to sell pirated
CDs and DVDs.
Foreign investors say Romania's IT sector is one of most promising
industries in the fast-growing economy thanks to high level of technical
education <#> in Romania, low wages and the country's thriving underworld
of computer hackers.
The best part: 'Gates made no comment'. I can imagine what he was thinking
though. LOL
--
Bruce Sorge
"I'm a mawg: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!"
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