Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

[Bill Stewart]

At 11:27 AM 12/4/00 -0500, David Honig wrote:
>At 05:26 AM 12/4/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>Traditional Chinese copyright law only applied to civilization,
>>i.e. Chinese-language books written by Chinese; stuff written by
>>barbarians wasn't provided, so lots of my Taiwanese fellow students in
>college
>>had much lower-cost versions of US-written textbooks, and that tradition
>>was adapted to software on CD-ROMs at least until recently.
>
>Maybe so with Chinese, but many publishers publish 
>overseas-only versions of CS texts because the furriners (e.g., Indians)
>couldn't afford US rates.  I've seen legitimately licensed $5 copies 
>of, e.g., K & R printed on thinner paper...

That's legitimate, though it often leads to gray-market rules
about smuggling stuff.
Many of the Chinese-printed textbooks I saw had covers
indicating that they were cookbooks, etc., to conceal that
they were pirate editions.


Tim writes:
>I don't doubt that differential marketing plans will evolve. Selling 
>a CD-ROM of Microsoft Office for $300 US in Bangalore is just not 
>going to fly, not with the back-alley version selling for the rupee 
>equivalent of $5.
>
>"The street will find its own uses for technology."
>
>And once Mojo gets running, I'm hoping to buy Microsoft Office for 10 
>Mojobucks.
>
>(So I can then resell it to 50 others....)

Tim, you're evil and twisted.  Not because you're suggesting ripping off MS,
but because you're proposing inflicting that unreliable bloatware on people
:-)

				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart at pobox.com
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