This is a test JESS3 BlogMicrosoft Cracks Down on Russian Bootlegging – JESS3 Blog https://blog.jess3.com JESS3 is a creative agency that specializes in social media strategy and data visualization. Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.21 Microsoft Cracks Down on Russian Bootlegging https://blog.jess3.com/2007/02/microsoft-cracks-down-on-russian.html https://blog.jess3.com/2007/02/microsoft-cracks-down-on-russian.html#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:37:00 +0000 Jesse Thomas /2007/02/microsoft-cracks-down-on-russian.html Russian school principal buys computers, which, apparently unbeknownst to him, were loaded with bootleg copies of Windows. He now faces jail time in Siberia. Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks it’s bullshit; Mikhail Gorbachev went so far as to write an open letter to Bill Gates asking him to intervene. Microsoft’s response, more or less? That the principal should enjoy his time in Siberia.

New York Times article

Fake Steve writes:

And you guys at Microsoft still wonder why the entire world hates you? Man oh man. You’ve got more money than God and yet you’re gonna toss some poor broke-ass Russian in prison? Evil.

]]> Russian school principal buys computers, which, apparently unbeknownst to him, were loaded with bootleg copies of Windows. He now faces jail time in Siberia. Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks it’s bullshit; Mikhail Gorbachev went so far as to write an open letter to Bill Gates asking him to intervene. Microsoft’s response, more or less? That the principal should enjoy his time in Siberia.

New York Times article

Fake Steve writes:

And you guys at Microsoft still wonder why the entire world hates you? Man oh man. You’ve got more money than God and yet you’re gonna toss some poor broke-ass Russian in prison? Evil.

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