Microsoft Convicted of Software Piracy - Reported in French Paper

9 Jan 2008

We are giving credit to vnut for bringing out this story from a French Newspaper "Le Monde Informatique."

According to vnunet - "Microsoft was found guilty of software piracy last year by a French court, according to facts unearthed today by the geek community."

"But the Redmond giant's conviction and three million franc (£285,000) fine somehow managed to escape the headlines. In fact, until today the only place the story has appeared is in French newspaper Le Monde Informatique" - it reports

And the only person who noticed the irony of the world's most aggressive anti-piracy firm being fined for piracy was Peruvian congressman Edgar David Villanueva Nunez.

Nunez inadvertently became a hero of the open source movement last month when he penned a letter to Juan Alberto Gonzalez, general manager of Microsoft Peru, arguing that the free software model does not break any intellectual property laws.