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It is always interesting to see how companies use pirated softwares so obviously in public. This time it just happens to be a Russian bank on their ATM machine… come on, how much more money does it take to buy a fully cracked Windows?�Fine, we give them a benefit of doubt, they are only a bunch of honest people like all of us, forgetting to activate our own Microsoft softwares. –Sam Chan
What probably happened here is the bank purchased their ATM software solution for the absolute lowest price. The hack software company that ‘hooked them up’ took the money and ran leaving their unknowing client with an unlicensed operating system on the machine. Kinda funny really. You get what you pay for.
@SeDuctEx Goes to show, you shouldn’t skimp out on your software, especially if you’re a bank!
Here in Brazil, where all imports have a 60% import duty and there are no computers or even parts such as motherboards or memory manufactured here, about 60 to 70% of the computers in most companies, including banks, are smuggled into the country.
If there were a Brazilian computer industry to protect, it would make a little sense. As it is, it is simply government greed. They are not even smart enough to encourage foreign manufactures like Apple, HP, or Lenovo to start an industry here in Brazil. They did it with car companies, and the largest automobile plant in the world is a VW facility near S�o Paulo. But that was a different, snarter administration. As a result, Brazil supplies most of the cars in South America.