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Chinese ordered to stop using pirate software

Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 01:57 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

A City in China has required Internet café operators to replace pirated software with legitimate versions – the officials primarily pushing Linux.

Nanchang, the capital of China’s Jiangxi province has around 600 Internet cafés which will be affected by the order – yet some are moaning about the cost of legal software.
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