On 4/15/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows is "free" (as in beer) here. Just a block from my pad there is > a shop with huge phonebook thick binders of listings of software titles > usually consisting of a photocopy of the front of the CD case as well as > CD cases of the more popular titles covering every inch of the walls.
I saw this in Hong Kong and Singapore. Singapore was the more impressive. A whole floor of "Orange Blossom Square", a mall, was full of shops that sold software and movies. I racked my brain trying to outwit the thing, but there was nothing I could think of (at the time) that wasn't somewhere in that mall. They had *everything*!! And actually, most of what was for sale was package deals. For example, a CD with 7 or 8 different major Adobe titles and 20 small Adobe things, font packs and the like. And since it was priced by the CD, not by the title, it'd be $5. And then, about once a day probably, all the shops would suddenly shoo everyone out, pull down the metal shutters, and the place would become a ghost town. About five minutes later, Singapore police would stroll leisurely through. A half hour later, they were open for business again. > Myself and a friend are organizing the Saigon Linux Users Group. First > meeting is next weekend. I sincerely wish you good luck in that venture. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
