Indian dealers are squealers over Microsoft piracy raids

[LoZoccolo]

"We are not against piracy but against the way Microsoft is working to stop it," SITA president Bharat Randheri told itVARnews. "Moreover, if they want to do business in India then they should change their prices and policies according to the Indian market. We are the one who are promoting their products in the market and if they will behave in such a rash manner with us then we will stop business with them.”

One retailer told CIOL that they are just doing a service to the customer by installing illegitimate copies of the OS.

"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets."

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/05/18/indian_tech_vendors_protest_microsoft

Let's get this right:

- It is a selfless act to not pay for software? Sounds to me like a selfish act of attracting business by giving it away at Microsoft's expense.

- A boycott that involves not buying software that they weren't buying before? What?

[acmavm]

1. Hey, this is poetic justice. Microsoft has outsourced how many jobs

to India?

[physioex]

2. Yep....

That's what he gets for outsourcing all the jobs to India and China. :rofl: