*** Quoting Bo Simonsen from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 BS>> mo to worry about than licensing.

 > That too.  Economically depressed areas tend to not be overly concerned 
 > with such things from what I've seen.  Not all of Africa, but probably 
 > in some parts.  Kinda like Asia.  In some parts, it's rampant to pirate 
 > software and other places it's rare.

BS> That's right, i fully agree :)

BS> But you might know it better since you're from Asia :)

Some parts here (China?) are shifting to UNIX based everything because of
this. ¨They can get everything 'freeware' then like StarOffice etc.

What's really prevalent here in Asia, is pirated movies.  It's hard to buy
one ¨'legally' because you can't tell if it's a pirate copy or not
sometimes.
                                       xxcarol

--- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4