Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:7117 soc.culture.japan:4944 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!srhqla!denwa!icjapan!jimmy From: jimmy@icjapan.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: software piracy (was "Interactive and me") Message-ID: <371@icjapan.uucp> Date: 23 Jul 90 09:47:08 GMT References: <3126@rsiatl.UUCP> <1990Jul11.164044.7241@sco.COM> <1990Jul13.231942.14009@ico.isc.com> <1990Jul16.161613.11171@pcrat.uucp> <839@mwtech.UUCP> <1580@redsox.bsw.com> Sender: jimmy@icjapan.uucp Reply-To: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) Followup-To: comp.unix.i386 Organization: Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 24 In article <1580@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@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. -- Jim Gottlieb Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan or or Fax: +81 3 237 5867 Voice Mail: +81 3 222 8429