Newspapers throughout the region have published a an excellent story about the plight of software developers in Asia who face impossible competition from piracy. Software developers from Thailand, Vietnam and India all express their frustrations with rampant theft of their intellectual property rights.
There are a number of misconception that surround software piracy. The first is that software piracy only impacts the multinational developers. The second is that piracy is due to pricey software products. But the Asian software developers quoted in the story dispel both of these notions.
The strongest quote in the article comes from BSA executive Tarun Sawney who says: "Piracy certainly stifles innovation. Why is it that we don't have any sort of global software company that originated from our part of the world? Yet in the United States, where the laws are very strong and the piracy rate is very low, we have idea, after idea, after idea taking over the whole world -- be it Yahoo, be it Facebook, be it a Microsoft operating system."
Check out the story by AFP here.
(Disclosure: The Business Software Alliance is a client).
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