software piracy (was "Interactive and me")

[Jim Gottlieb]

In article <1580 at redsox.bsw.com> campbell at redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>Just my two cents' worth:  we sell a package (a very fancy email gateway for
>various proprietary mini-based email systems) that sells, on average, for
>about $25,000...I never dreamed that anyone would actually try to steal 
>a copy.
>
>Well, I was wrong...Oddly, most of the problem was in Europe...and the 
>attitudes about software property rights I encountered there were 
>MUCH worse than in the U.S.

I have encountered similar attitudes here in Japan.

We were negotiating with a major Japanese trading company, and in the
course of our talks we mentioned that we expected to receive a
payment for each CPU that the software is used on (it's not a mass
market product).  They replied that that was absolutely ridiculous 
and added, "We Japanese do not believe in paying for software."

Needless to say, our negotiations didn't get very far.

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