Microsoft to help NGOs and mass media
Microsoft has an intention to legalize the software for human rights activists, ecologists and mass media, informs "Ejednevnik". The company will provide a special license which will automatically turn all the installed soft into legal. These users will also be sold licensed programs at priviliged prices, in accordance with the Infodonor program. Free and priviliged provision of software will last till 2012.
Microsoft changed its policy after discovery that struggle with counterfeit became a convenient means of pressure of law-enforcement authorities on regional NGOs and media. Policemen or public prosecutors visited offices of not rich NGOs or newspapers, found counterfeit software or considered licenses false, then initiated criminal cases upon the article "Copyright violation", which allowed them to turn off computers and paralyze the work of ecological or human rights organizations or editors' offices. Moreover, it allowed them to keep the subjects of the case under control threatening them with imprisonment or fine.
Microsoft changed its policy after discovery that struggle with counterfeit became a convenient means of pressure of law-enforcement authorities on regional NGOs and media. Policemen or public prosecutors visited offices of not rich NGOs or newspapers, found counterfeit software or considered licenses false, then initiated criminal cases upon the article "Copyright violation", which allowed them to turn off computers and paralyze the work of ecological or human rights organizations or editors' offices. Moreover, it allowed them to keep the subjects of the case under control threatening them with imprisonment or fine.
