- MarissaBrand
- gordman
- mithunsarker
- Kim07
- Ralph Waldren
Bill Rushdie, Salman's brother?
Submitted by Taran on 22 September, 2004 - 04:54.
It looks like Bill Gates has been equated to Satan by Iranians;
...But according to Mohammad Sephery-Rad, the man in charge of the Islamic regime's computer systems, there had to be a wide scale move to Linux in the interests of long-term politics and security.
He said that there was no guilt in using pirated software, we assume that would be because you are only cheating Satan, i.e. the United States, when you use it.
However Iran is trying to gain entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a step that would entail respect of international intellectual property laws.
This would mean paying Satan a lot of money to legitimise all the software. The Iranians don't want to do that as they claim VoleWare has too many backdoors and security weaknesses that are always being patched, so it is not secure...
Well, I don't know that 'The Great Satan' exists, but I think they have a fairly intuitive understanding of how TRIPs works.