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Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:51:28 +0100
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Steve writes:

> This is really getting [OT] but I have to ask:
> What's the ratio of legal vs. pirated software
> use here in Canada?

Somewhat less than half of all software in Canada is stolen: about 41%.  This is
nearly twice the U.S. rate, and higher than the rate for Western Europe (36%),
but it is lower than the rates for Eastern Europe (70%), the Middle East (63%),
Asia (47%), and Latin America (59%).

> A few years ago Peter Dvorak (PC magazine) stated
> in an article that Canadians were among the world's
> worst software pirates.

They are worse than Western Europeans and Americans, but compare favorably to
most of the rest of the world.


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