Daewoo co’s ‘pirated’ software
p2pnet.net News:- Hanoi-based Daewoo Hanel Electronic Corp, an affiliate of South Korea’s Daewoo, has been accused of using pirated software.
Vietamese police and Ministry of Culture and Information inspectors raided the company last week, "and discovered all the software installed in their computers was pirated, said Vu Xuan Thanh, the ministry’s chief inspector," according to the Associated Press.
Illegal software included copies of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Auto CAD, it has Thanh saying.
A Daewoo Hanel executive said the software was already installed on the computers when we bought them and, "We had no idea whether it was real or pirated.”
The company, a joint venture between South Korea’s Daewoo Corp., and Hanel, a local company, was ordered to pay a fine of 15 million dong ($940), adds AP.
Also See:
Associated Press – Vietnam fines Daewoo affiliate for software piracy, October 11, 2006
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October 12th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
That’s less than the price of a single copy of Autocad
October 14th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
all the software installed in their computers was pirated? do you expect us to believe that not a single piece of freeware was on it?
February 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
October 5th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Water finds it own level every time. Conceptually this article (software) is sound and I agree whole heartedly. I personally think it relates to CAD as well, IMHO.