Double-A wrote:

honestjohn wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message
oups.com...
China's President Hu will be dining with Bill Gates (the real power!)
tonight at the Gates mansion in Seattle, before going on for an
historic meeting with President Bush in Washington.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline..._its_gate.html

China is the copyright piracy capital of the world, including the
copying of movies and computer software, an issue that I can imagine
Gates will harp on!

Gates has lost billions due to the fact that 80% of the Windows
software sold in China are pirated copies!

Hmmmm!

I wonder if that means that I could buy a version of "Windows 2005"
cheap at Wal-Mart?

Double-A

Only if relative of honorable Chinese Det. Charlie Chan.

H.J.


I used to work for a Chinese guy who bragged about his brother bringing
back from China these descramblers, so they could watch scrambled
satellite pay TV channels without paying!

Double-A

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