Interesting piece in the always wonderful Register today: The President of Romania apparently said that pirated software had started the computer industry in Romania, This was reported as having been said when the Romanian President shared a platform with Bill Gates, at the opening of a Microsoft Technology Centre in Bucharest.

I can’t resist this quote from the Register article:

72 per cent of software in Romania, one of the EC’s newest member states, is pirated according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA). That costs companies like Microsoft $111m in lost revenue each year.

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