Vietnam PM meets Microsoft's Bill Gates
Michael Kahn writes for Reuters:
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai pledged to combat software piracy during talks with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Monday as he became the most senior official of the communist state to visit the United States since the Vietnam war ended 30 years ago.
Khai signed two agreements committing Vietnam to work with Microsoft in curbing theft of intellectual property rights and removing licensing barriers for used computers donated to schools, said Microsoft spokeswoman Tami Begasse.
The Business Software Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group, estimates that 92 percent of the software used in Vietnam in 2004 was pirated, the highest rate in the world.
posted by Fergie @ 6/21/2005 05:56:00 AM
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