[Reply] HI all,
At 12:53 on 7/06/2011 Paul wrote >I was in Villa, Vanuatu visiting with the Red Cross there once and >was introduced in a Duty Free shop (should have perhaps been called an >'ethics free shop') to a pack for $50 USD which identified itself as >being from mainland China which had every piece of modern software and >drawing/audio/visual producing software then current ex-USA >(including Delphi etc!). I was fascinated at the lengths the pirates >had gone to, and could only detect a few obvious visual flaws in the >re-production of it all. > >The shop owner himself appeared and was equally fascinated in my not >wanting to buy it all even if he knocked a few more vatus off it! David Intersimone told me of one day he was in Singapore at a similar shop, and found Delphi there on sale for $5. He flashed his Borland business card on the counter, and the lady picked it up, looked it over, handed it back and said, "sorry, cannot give you discount". kr Gary Ref#: 41006
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