Terence,
Things have changed quite a bit in Hong Kong. Since the
introduction of the new legislation against software piracy,
one does not find many shops selling pirated software, esp.
in Golden Arcade, a place which every Customs officer is
watching.
The shop I visited sells only Linux stuffs, from magazines
to Linux central CDs. Most of the time I buy the
Linuxcentral CD's,but I have also bought boxed Manrake which
I could register .
The box I bought includes 6 CDs and one DVD, plus several
the manuals, so it must be the original ( for the paranoiac,
the 'original' of the copies, maybe ).
I totally agree with your theory. Since the introduction of
the new legislation I see companies, and even home users
switching to Linux. If the installation and configuration of
Linux had not been that difficult, there would have been a
rush to switch.
Regards
Auyeung
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terence McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Auyeung at Technet"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: To Au-Yeung: E-Workstation 3.1 in Hong Kong
>
> >From my time in HK, (and the Golden Arcade.....) I found
it good value, but,
> and a big but, the Arcade had no "official" software for
sale. I do hope that
> the very reasonable price of SuSE Linux- and most others-
means that you got
> a full proper copy.
>
> I hope (further) that this means that even in the hothouse
commercial markets
> of HK it is not worth ripping off the distro because the
margins are too low!
>
> This in turn would mean that an argument I have voiced for
years (that most
> people most of the time will pay a reasonable price for
what they buy, but
> will support piracy when it means that they get what they
want if (a) they
> cannot afford the often silly prices, or (b) if they
consider the prices
> extortionate.)
>
> To rip off SuSE's Personal or Professional offerings would
involve more
> effort and cost, I suspect, than buying in bulk and
selling at the market
> rate.
>
> Can you confirm that you have a full SuSE version, and not
an Arcade version?
>
> Please reply to me personally if you prefer not to respond
to the list. I
> would just like to have my theory supported from the
Arcade itself! Thanks.
>
> Terence
>
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