China’s software piracy
The IHT reports today that the Business Software Alliance found:
…the rate of pirated software in those two countries fell four percentage points last year to 86 percent in China and to 83 percent in Russia. Still, China and Russia remained among the countries with the highest rates of piracy. The United States, with a software piracy rate of 21 percent, was the lowest.
Looks like the dinner Bill Gates hosted for Hu Jintao was for a reason. This is quite a change from the >> 90% piracy rate in China just a few years ago. Certainly the new mandate for PC sellers to require a bundled OS has something to do with this.
