Asia Times Online: In Jakarta, piracy is official
Excerpt: “US software giant Microsoft, which turned over a gross profit of more than US$30 billion for the financial year ending March 31, 2005, last week denied media reports of a deal with Jakarta to “legalize” the software in tens of thousands of pirated versions of Windows programs used in government departments.
The reports claimed the amnesty offer, which would allow the government to pay $1 for each computer running an illegal version of the operating system, emerged after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Seattle last month.”