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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