jimmy@icjapan.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) (07/23/90)
In article <1580@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes: >Just my two cents' worth: we sell a package (a very fancy email gateway for >various proprietary mini-based email systems) that sells, on average, for >about $25,000...I never dreamed that anyone would actually try to steal >a copy. > >Well, I was wrong...Oddly, most of the problem was in Europe...and the >attitudes about software property rights I encountered there were >MUCH worse than in the U.S. I have encountered similar attitudes here in Japan. We were negotiating with a major Japanese trading company, and in the course of our talks we mentioned that we expected to receive a payment for each CPU that the software is used on (it's not a mass market product). They replied that that was absolutely ridiculous and added, "We Japanese do not believe in paying for software." Needless to say, our negotiations didn't get very far. -- Jim Gottlieb Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <jimmy@denwa.info.com> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy> Fax: +81 3 237 5867 Voice Mail: +81 3 222 8429