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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (111342)3/18/2015 11:49:05 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 220024
 
Microsoft will be giving Windows 10 away for free to everyone, regardless of whether your copy of Windows is counterfeit or real.

Apparently this is part of some strategy to regain customers in China where more than 75% of Windows computers operate on counterfeit software.

They think they'll be able to sell copies of Microsoft Office or some such thing.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (111342)3/19/2015 1:36:36 AM
From: teevee  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 220024
 
you can thank Nortel for first opening a factory in China, and then allowing China to hack Nortel's Canadian head office, top executive emails, and technical data files on all Nortel technology in use, including CDMA. (this was communicated to me by a former Nortel employee who claims to have brought Chinese hacking to the attention of head office).

Within 6 months of Nortel's China factory opening, Hawei was selling Nortel knock offs to telco's at below Nortel's cost. Soon thereafter, Nortel went belly up.......