Pirated Microsoft Corp software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian President Traian Basescu told the company’s co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday.
Basescu was meeting the software giant’s chairman in Bucharest to celebrate the opening of a Microsoft global technical center in the Romanian capital.
“Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania,” Basescu said during a joint news conference with Gates.
“‘It helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry which has become famous around the world … Ten years ago it was an investment in Romania’s friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates.’
Gates made no comment.”
I bet he didn’t. lol