Serbian piracy rampant

When people with 300 euros per month buy computers for 600 euros, how do you expect them to give 800 euros for software only. That is just insane. So either they will use open source software, or use pirated software.

Surely that makes Serbia one of the BEST places for piracy, don't you think ? Maybe even #1 in the world ?
I always do prefer my half-glass to be half-full.

what does microsoft prefer? that people use a pirated version of windows or that they use a legal linux if they cant afford a legal windows?

Hmm.. seems Serbia is the BEST in this also. 
And your title and subtitle are logically the WORST ;)

May the pirated software of big companies be long lived. Why the hell would anyone give their monthly salary on some crappy software. We would be happy to be able to afford overpriced software but that won't happen in the near future.
Boris, Serbia.

What do they expect? Make XP $15/license and maybe someone will buy it in a country like this. And that's a big MAYBE. With so many other issues in the society and corruption in the government running rampant do you really think anyone gives a damn about Microsoft's monopolious rights? Especially since Serbia just got bombed back to the 19th century by the fellow countrymen of Bill Gates (which will never be forgotten). Not to politicize this any further - MS should pay people in countries like this to install and test the piece of crap called VISTA.

Wherever poverty and lack of laws exists...Piracy prevails


Micro$oft could be happy with Serbia... thay got their voice in ISO on OpenXML adoption, and that means to M$ alot more then couple of million bucks. ;)

The good news (for him) is that in these places Balmer can go on safari and shoot people with illegal copies of windows.

Bill G should give it away from his Charity as a Charidee donation ;-)

He could take from the rich and give to the poor. Or do a Bush and take from the poor and keep for the rich.

With the Serbian piracy issue wouldn't it seem appropriate to just begin to educate them on the price of Linux? It isn't that Linux can't do the same jobs. It isn't that it isn't competent. There are whole governments settling on Linux.

Why would it be so hard to clue these people in on the abundance of very fine quality software that runs on Linux servers and the desktop?

Do we really have to fight this battle with having Microsoft so utterly rule the EU that these people can't make an informed decision about alternatives to software?

What's up with this "Windows is the only choice" in the EU? There's more potential out there than just Microsoft.

Get with the deal Serbia.

Microsoft could probably not care less. The shipping, advertising, and packaging would probably not be worth the time to enforce software licensing in such places. Thus Microsoft can simply benefit from gaining market share, even without earning money off the initial investment.

BSA Serbia is in campaign, they work for MS Serbia and want to do their job.
"Only 41.8 percent of computer distributors offer only original software and more than 57 percent of sellers "DO INFORM a buyer on possible legal actions over illegal software" so they offer you clean computer or Linux.
MS Windows is priced higher then in Germany, so every second computer is sold without MS software and by default they think it is piracy.
Free market doesn't mean MS monopoly in Serbia.


@Cis: and what the hell did civilians had with that??? I was 15 years old then, and cassete bombs were droped on open market near my house and on city hospital. What the hell did those peasents on city market did to anyone?

Bombard politicians not ppl.

Cis, you should refrain from discussing something you have no experience or knowledge about. Something you've looked up on Wikipedia about bombing in 1999 won't even give you a hint about what was going on there in the last century. Next thing you're going to say is that Americans actually attacked Iraq because of the nuclear threat.

Win XP cost around 120eur in Serbia, Office around 150eur ( all for home edition ), and normal wage is around 350 eur. For some kind of normal life, for a family ( two parents and two kids ), you need approximatly 900 eur.
Do the math...

@Cis, we are talking about piracy, software and computers here and you are posting links for ethnic cleansing and wars? What is your problem? 
I still think China definitely tops everyone, but oh well. There are several things Serbian government should/can do in order to stop and prevent piracy. First, stricter laws need to be implemented, then give people better understanding as to why piracy is bad and lastly huge fines and imprisonment. In a year or two the subject line might then change to: "Serbia is number one in use of legal software, 98% :) "

@cis
this is why now in kosovo there are 99% of albanians and 1% of serbs. Because of clensing? 
Just don't lie here.

about the article: percentage is much, much lower that 78%



hey... about that war...
YOU IDIOT.....
You hadn't lived on KOSOVO, so SHUT UP your mouth.... You don't know what is happening now there...
Only Ethnic Cleaning there is done by Albanian peoples.....
When it was War time, it's usual to kill your enemy, and you call that ethnic cleaning?

NOone knows better than me what happened on kosovo, because, I saw all!