Going Soft on Pirates

For the first time ever, piracy of Microsoft programs has been punished in Indonesia. So why was this legal suit not entirely serious?

June 19, 2001

In America, Bill Gates is a mighty computer `whiz', fabulously rich and famous. But in the piracy jungle that surrounds his Microsoft products in Indonesia, this world-beating boss does not know how to act. From the multitude of businesses that illegally copy and manufacture Microsoft software in Indonesia, so far only five have been taken to court. The legal actions themselves are `lenient' civil cases, though they could just as easily have been f

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