Bronx's tags:
Bronx's most popular posts:
Bronx reads (82):
Who's reading Bronx (102):

The page you were looking for no longer exists

SO, THIS IS HOW THEY ARE TRAINED?

Bronx posted on Feb 03, 2007 | views: 471 | Tags: Romania, hackers
Every successful trade has an apprenticeship scheme in place. So does, it appears, hacking. See this must-read about Romania, right from the horse's mouth no less:

[

Romania: Software piracy made us what we are today

Thank-you, Mr Gates

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco → More by this author
Published Friday 2nd February 2007 00:08 GMT
var r = (Math.floor((Math.random()*6)+1)); if (r>5) {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink Research" href="http://go.theregister.com/k/weeklynl200606">Get The Register\'s new weekly newsletter for senior IT managers delivered to your inbox, click here.\x3C/a>');} else if (r>4) {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;71538879;13533154;q?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/skinker.html/">Receive articles like this on your desktop as they break, click here.\x3C/a>');} else if (r>3) {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;71538880;13533154;i?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/skinker.html/">Click here to receive articles like this on your desktop.\x3C/a>');} else if (r>2) {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;71538881;13533154;j?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/skinker.html/">Interested in this story? Receive others like it on your desktop as they break.\x3C/a>');} else if (r>1) {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;71538882;13533154;k?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/skinker.html/">Get articles like this sent straight to my desktop.\x3C/a>');} else {document.write('\x3Ca class="TopTextLink" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;71537469;13533154;k?http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/skinker.html/">Stay one step ahead, receive articles like this on your desktop as they happen.\x3C/a>');} Find your perfect job - click here from thousands of tech vacancies

Romania's president delivered an encomium to software piracy during Bill Gates' world tour promoting Windows Vista.

President Traian Basescu reportedly told Gates that software piracy helped build a vibrant technology industry in Romania.

document.write('\x3Cscript src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/reg.software.4159/front;pos=middle;' + RegExCats + GetVCs() + 'ptype=' + RegPage + ';maid=' + maid + ';site=uk;dcove=d;test=' + test + ';sz=336x280;tile=3;ord=' + rand + '?" type="text/javascript">\x3C\/script>');

Appearing with Gates at the opening of a Microsoft global technology center in Bucharest, he said. "Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania," he said. Cue sound of Microsoft PR jaws dropping.

"[Piracy] helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry, which has become famous around the world... ten years ago, it was an investment in Romania's friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates."

Gates is not reported to have responded, but his company campaigns against piracy and works vigorously with prosecutors to bring criminals to justice.

The Romanian IT service sector is expected to grow 16.8 per cent during the next few years to hit $356m in 2009, according to IDC. However, 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.

Experts have called for stronger action from Romanian officials on software piracy, with prosecutors encouraged to stop dismissing potential cases. The International Intellectual Property Alliance in 2006 said dismissals are acting as a disincentive on police to clamp down on criminals, who are mostly end-users and distributors. ®



send to a friend del.icio.us Digg reddit StumbleUpon

Comments

  • silverwhisper said on Feb 04, 2007....
    um...bronx, i think you've got a busted tag in there somewhere.

    ed
  • Bronx said on Feb 04, 2007....
    ed: yikes, the price of rushing-to-post. Software piracy? - it's as good as gone. Thanks, again.

Comment on "SO, THIS IS HOW THEY ARE TRAINED?"

Romania hackers (Click to add tags below)

(Separate tags using commas, for example: New York, dating, vegetarian)
Comment Anonymously