[DUG] FW: Web development

[Gary T. Benner]

[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






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