Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

[Jdr]

Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man
was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its software up
until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial piracy of
its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of Taiwan-based
software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were responsible for
the "production and distribution of more than 90 per cent of the
high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law
enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like in
Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks

 

[alexB]

Another blow to the Ubuntu gang. No wonder they have been screaming like
devils on a frying pan lately.

They sell Ubuntu computers to East Europeans where the customers wipe out
Ubuntu and install pirated Taiwanese counterfeit Windows.

 

[the wharf rat]

Another blow to the Ubuntu gang. No wonder they have been screaming like
devils on a frying pan lately.

Wouldn't devils like a frying pan? I'd think that if you wanted
to annoy devils you'd put them in a refrigerator, or maybe make them read
the collected newsgroup posings of (e-mail address removed).

Let me play the devil's advocate here, huh? Why would you buy
ANY operating system if you planned right along to install nasty counterfeit
Windows? Why not just buy a nice clean machine and start off right?

 

[alexB]

An IQ test for a rodent:

(1) The East Europeans prefer to buy computers with Ubuntu because they like
free source. They are so smart they immediately begin to develop the OS to
new heights.

(2) They just want to be different.

(3) They hate MS and the United States, despite the fact that local US
embassies have 10-year long lists of applicants trying to migrate to this
"horrible" country.

(4) They are poor, poor people who cannot afford basic things, often even
soap, and have to skimp on basic necessities to buy a computer.

Try it, wharf rat.

Your question stin*ks. You just displayed a cruel insensitivity and
ignorance about the world beyond your home district.

 

[the wharf rat]

Try it, wharf rat.

5) Poor alex lives in a fantasy world where people who can't afford
computers pay extra money for software they're going to throw away so
they can install icky pirated windows because they hate the United
States.

The voices aren't real, alex. Hasn't your doctor told you that?

 

[fridau]

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like in
Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks

Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial piracy
of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of
Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were responsible
for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per cent of the
high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law
enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[AlexB]

You are a scummy insensitive IDIOT. Ubuntu is FREE.

Installing Ubuntu and selling it to an East European country increases the
cost of the machine by the amount of labor only which is perhaps 3 min.

You, is a quadruple idiot. You cannot put two and two together. You get lost
in your own idiotic fantasies. You cannot even add ZERO to the cost of the
computer.

SCUM, SCUM, SCUM you, source of world plague in middle ages.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Sounds like you have a wild hair up your A$$. My Name isn't Doris, Just
FYI. It is Bill. Maybe you need to stop chasing parked cars.

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like in
Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks

Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial
piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of
Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were responsible
for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per cent of the
high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by
law enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[fridau]

its DORIS, you IDIOT! You dont even know your name.. you are a GIRL or
rather more like a FRIKIN HORRID STINKY WITCH!

Do you really think that you are fooliing anyone? You are just showing how
STUPID you are...

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Sounds like you have a wild hair up your A$$. My Name isn't Doris, Just
FYI. It is Bill. Maybe you need to stop chasing parked cars.

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like
in Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks


Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial
piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of
Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were
responsible for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per
cent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either
seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[Jdr]

Taking Bill's responding to the info. he might be a fraction of
these " 90 per cent of the high-quality" pirates of Microsoft
software...-

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like in
Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks

Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial
piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of
Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were responsible
for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per cent of the
high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by
law enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[Bill Yanaire]

its DORIS, you IDIOT! You dont even know your name.. you are a GIRL or
rather more like a FRIKIN HORRID STINKY WITCH!

Do you really think that you are fooliing anyone? You are just showing how
STUPID you are...

Yes, keep taking your drugs. You can still type. I don't think I need to
say any more to an IDIOT like yourself. Just FYI

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Sounds like you have a wild hair up your A$$. My Name isn't Doris, Just
FYI. It is Bill. Maybe you need to stop chasing parked cars.

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like
in Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks


Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial
piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner
of Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were
responsible for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per
cent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products
either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible
for consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Taking Bill's responding to the info. he might be a fraction of
these " 90 per cent of the high-quality" pirates of Microsoft
software...-

Are you kidding or what? I don't pirate software. And if I did, I wouldn't
share it with you

SHUT UP YOU CROSSDRESSING IDIOT DORIS!

Since you are reporting the news, what is the weather going to be like
in Chicago on Tuesday.

Thanks


Taiwan group guilty of 90 per cent of Microsoft piracy

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese
man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its
software up until his arrest in 2004.

The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial
piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of
Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology.

Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates were
responsible for the "production and distribution of more than 90 per
cent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either
seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world".

[....]

"The finished products with their professionally made packaging, laser
labels, warranty cards and instruction manuals made them impossible for
consumers to question their authenticity."

more...

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2208753/microsoft-lauds-jail-sentences

 

[the wharf rat]

its DORIS, you IDIOT! You dont even know your name.. you are a GIRL or

What's the matter? Don't you like girls?

 

[Bill Yanaire]

What's the matter? Don't you like girls?

I think he likes Sheep!

 

[the wharf rat]

Installing Ubuntu and selling it to an East European country increases the
cost of the machine by the amount of labor only which is perhaps 3 min.

Don't know much about the business, huh?

You, is a quadruple idiot.

Lol. You is pretty funny, kid.

You cannot put two and two together.

Sure I can! When I visited the Wizard with Dorothy he gave me
an actual diploma! That *proves* I'm smart, you know.

SCUM, SCUM, SCUM you, source of world plague in middle ages.

Actually, the problem there was that city-dwellers killed cats
because they assumed that they were invariably witch's familiars. Without
predators the rat population boomed and then crashed. The rat fleas deserted
their defunct hosts for the closest available warm body, which was usually
human. Unfortunately some of the fleas carried plague bacteria.

So you see it wasn't the rat's fault at all. Just another case of
people choosing biased personal opinion and superstition over observable
reality. Not that anyone we know does that hmmmmmm alex?

 

[the wharf rat]

I think he likes Sheep!

Bah.

 

[AlexB]

Not that simple. Those rats came mostly from Asia in huge numbers and
carried plague endemic to Central Asian Steppes. Those places still are
endemic for plague. Some sporadic cases are an annual reality. In Russia and
Kazakhstan there are microbiological centers specifically devoted to control
the problem.

The birth rates of rats when are left for themselves are regulated by pretty
much the same conditions like locust's. They are also dependent on the
available habitat, meaning the number of settlements. As the population grew
the epidemic was waiting to happen.

The rats proliferated because of poor sanitary conditions. You rats are
ultimately responsible for the persecution of the Jews since the burghers
thought that the Jews caused the plague by witchcraft.

I doubt the cats were a major part of the equation. This is another idiotic
illusion of yours. One has to have armies of cats to control an avalanche of
hungry rats. Rats when on a move are known to eat people alive, let alone
cats.

Again, you proved your ignorance and idiotic disposition.

What you think was a factor is like trying to combat moving locust with a
few canaries.

 

[AlexB]

There is that website #1 bug in Ubuntu (you can google for it if you wish).
It is a long-long thread of some dedicated Ubuntu crackpots. Some may be
tongue in cheek but it is hard to tell. I edited it just a bit to make more
readable.

Mihai Felseghi wrote on 2007-03-23: (permalink)

Hello, I am from Romania and here Microsoft is the majority even if many
try to spread opensource. Here you can find computers with linux
preinstalled but those who buy them are simply doing that because are
cheaper without a microsoft license and when they go home they simply
reformat the hard disk and install a pirated version of windows.

One day someone even offered me 25$ just to delete the preinstalled Red Hat
on his computer. So I think that the problem is not Microsoft but the people
who are using computers, you see most of them just buy a computer to watch
movies listen to music or browsing the web and most of them don't even care
about the software cause I saw many windows users who install programs with
a double click and uninstalling them using ctrl+a del

I worked for mobile telephony company which used a browser based aplication
for making contracts and whe asked if I could just install Ubuntu they went
crazy... the same thing when I have set up OpenOffice. It seems everybody
are scared of Linux and nobody want to give a try and when i say that I am
talking about the basic computer users they don't want to see a console they
don't want to use wine to play games or hack lirc to use a remote. I think
linux will spread when will be more idiot friendly.

I am and will be a Ubuntu and open source advocate and i think is up to us
to change the way people think about ubuntu and linux in general I even
offered free consultation and help just to make and keep people using Ubuntu
so this the the thing we all have to do to beat "the enemy " and win the
war.
**************
This nutcase complains abut Windows "strangeness:"

Windows has a lot of strangeness. "Start" being used to shutdown the pc?
Marvellous.
<how about the Start of the shutdown?>
****************
This nutcase admits that Ubuntu has no documantation whatsoever.

deesy58 wrote on 2006-08-28: Not Ready for Prime Time (permalink)

After looking at Red Hat 7.0 and 7.3 a couple of years ago, I became curious
about Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I also purchased the Official Ubuntu Book, so I
know about Bug #1. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this one to be
resolved, however. Documentation, when it exists at all, is scattered all
over the Internet. Dapper is, IMHO, relatively buggy, and the so-called
"community" of Ubuntu users might, or might not provide help, support and
advice to those users experiencing problems with installation and
configuration. I have seen forum boards with questions from newbies that
have gone unanswered for over a month. What kind of support is that? For the
most part, Ubuntu and Kubuntu procedures seem counter-intuitive, and each
installation of Dapper appears to perform a little differently.

It appears that Ubuntu has taken on more of the characteristics of a
philosophy or a religion than of a technology, and there are a good many
evangelical believers out there. But I think you will be waiting for a very,
very long time for a resolution to Bug #1. Criticize Microsoft and Windows
all you want! Their documentation is centralized and comprehensive, and
their support is prompt and conscientious. I have never had a question
posted on a Microsoft Support Board go unanswered. It is relatively easy for
a home user to purchase a shrink-wrapped Windows XP, take it home, and
install it with no major problems. Ubuntu and Kubuntu can't day that. This
product (ubuntu) is clearly not ready for "prime time."

Just my opinion, but it is enough to make me want to give Red Hat, or maybe
SuSE another try ...

Deesy58

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Linoman wrote on 2005-11-13: (permalink)
I must ask a question, this bug that faces not only Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc but
Linux in general what is it really caused by?

1) Is it caused by unfair practices by certian large businesses?
2) Is it caused by customers that do not know more about Linux?

We all know I guess that its caused by a combination of both. If Linux is to
expand rapidly to the desktop user then more education is needed for the
public. I live in South Africa (Western Cape) and here 99% of PC shops
either just don't support Linux or for some reason have not heard of it.

Come on, lets educate people who do not know the joys of Linux and
especially Ubuntu
***********************
Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote on 2005-11-14: (permalink)
I see this bug time to time. I am not talking about the average joe who
doesn't even know what an OS is. But, I am talking about Computer
Scientists. Yes, you heard me right. Fellow students in my Computer Science
degree, are as addicted to Windows as Hippies were addicted to "LOVE" in the
60s ;-) . Our university(University of Southampton, UK), has invested a lot
of time, money and effort into providing us with a room full of Linux PCs
with latest hardware. Yet, we ******see students flocking to M$ Windows
PCs.******
<to the chagrins of (e-mail address removed)>

Bug Fixes:

1. User awareness/education - I am working on it. So far managed to
convert my brother and four of my friends. Though, ****few revert to M$
often*****, due to hardware incompatibilities, with time these issues can be
resolved.

2. Advocate the fact the UBUNTU is free - Yes, your PC would be a lot
cheaper if it wasn't for all the pre-installed software. May be with the
saving you can afford better peripherals or even a high spec PC. As
abdulmueid commented above[in bug#1's comments page], the use of Linux based
computers is the only way for computers to become widely available in
developing countries. Mmmm will they still be called developing countries
then...

3. Advertise in YELLOW Pages/Directory Listings for free Ubuntu
consultations - LUGs are a good idea. But people are hesitant while
venturing into the unknown(to them that is). So may be the LUGs can
advertise, offering help in local news papers, TVs etc.

4. Awareness initiatives - Government should allocate funds to create
awareness among people. National Televisions should telecast programmes
during prime time-slots, to advise people about the open source software. I
think, people wouldn't want to break the law when there is a legal and free
alternative. Why pirate MS Office when you can use Open Office? Why get all
the spam, spy ware, virus?

Well, all this is my objectives for the future. I am just waiting for my
chance. Until then I am just preparing myself and doing whatever I can to
help.

"Small drops make the mighty ocean"

So do your bit to help....

-- Saru
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MauricioHernandez wrote on 2005-11-23: (permalink)

In 2 opportunities I have visited the Technology Section of 3 big department
stores in Chile (Falabella, Almacenes Paris and Ripley). I have requested to
buy even the most powerful and expensive computer they have (either desktop
or laptop) but with NO operating system.

After some minutes, the very motivated sales persons come back with sad face
to inform me that their supervisors have not allowed the procedure because
OS is already installed.

Incredible!

I suggest we organize the Ubuntu Request Day. What's that? Let's ask each
ubuntu fan to go to a store one day (same for all over the world) and ask to
buy a computer with Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Edubuntu, or maybe Debian installed).

Obviously, if by any case, the store agrees... we may have some excuses
already planned
***********************
Nal wrote on 2005-12-27: (permalink)

Ok I found a major part of this bug. I finaly confinced a friend to go to
linux, in the form of ubuntu. He LOVED it. Couldn't stop talking about the
speed and ease of use and all that.

Then it happened. We went to install a game. When it didn't work he looked
at me and asked how do I get my games working. I then told him for most
games you can use Cedega or wine, but some don't work at all yet, you also
need no cd cracks for some also.

At the point he looked at me and said, wait you mean I have to buy a program
to get most my games working..then some wont work..and some that do I have
to use a no cd crack....Just install windows. I would rather have all my
games working.

So there you have it. We fix this gameing prob and we can get more users.
Most that I see switch right back when they find out about games and linux.
They dont want to have to install new stuf then hope their game is
supported. If we can some how make it work out the box on all games like
windows we will be set.
***************

The chuck full of nuts!!!!!!!!!!