DAGUPAN CITY—The ongoing battle between software developers and pirates in the country has continued to escalate, with no foreseeable victory for the government in the near future, an official of software firm Microsoft Philippines said here.
Jojo Ayson, Microsoft Philippines senior product manager, said software piracy in the Philippines is still rampant despite the government’s efforts to stop it.
“It’s still rampant [because] a lot of people still don’t see the value of intellectual property and it’s so easy to [buy] pirated software,” said Ayson during the local launch of the Windows Vista and Office 2007 last week.
He blamed the people’s mentality of settling for copied versions of software products than buying the original.
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