Anti-piracy by cheap software

The purchase price of the app can be reduced by half if the user chooses the right product. It is no longer too heavy if it is considered an investment, has a plan to recover and generate profit.

In home or small office computers, there are many professional-level applications (Professional), but employers don't know all the features they have. Many people install the whole MS Office 2003 Professional suite with a capacity of about 1.5 GB only to run MS Word and MS Excel software (about 500-600 MB), or need to use Photoshop (350 MB), the user will Install all Adobe Creative Suite (about 1.2 GB).

If you spend money to buy, all this software up to thousands of dollars but more than half is spent on unnecessary features. Choosing the right product also helps the user to reduce by more than half. In Vietnam, the Windows XP installer, Professional Service Pack 2 version is priced at 306 USD, while the Home Edition version is only about 146 USD, even Starter Edition only has 42 USD. The full Office 2003 SP2 set costs $ 360, while the reduced version of Basic Edition is $ 208.

"Signs" for the organization

Priced at 470 USD, Windows Vista Ultimate is not suitable for general users in Vietnam.Screenshots.

Copyright software has the advantage of updating schedules, technical support from the manufacturer. According to Mr. Nguyen Hai Ha, Director of the Ministry of Industry IT Center, the money to buy software copyright at first glance is big, but expensive or cheap depends on how that is used. Buying it without using it, even if a penny is paid.

" The calculation of software costs may cause the number of computers to decrease but the efficiency will increase ," said Ha. " Microsoft's software is still an option for state agencies and large businesses because of its high reliability, large amounts of old data, integration and rapid service development. In particular, they have revealed. Stable upgrade and technical support from genuine ".

" Taxi companies can't wait for BMW to lower their prices to buy them to do business, they choose other cheaper cars. So companies shouldn't complain about buying expensive copyrighted software. There are totally other solutions such as open source software, cheap software , 'said Nguyen Truong Giang, information technology officer of the Ministry of Defense.

Cheap price for personal users

' To combat software piracy and change user consciousness, we can start with cheap software ,' said Nguyen Truong Giang.

Using temple software for too long makes users forget the concept of choosing the right software for them. Even some IT industry experts have this habit and close codes are almost identical to Microsoft products.

The lesson has been proven in China, its neighbor has similar copyright infringement to Vietnam. By launching a cheap WPS Office office suite with features similar to MS Office, KingSoft gradually dominates the market and currently owns 54% of the office software market share, almost 100% of state organizations. and this country. Mr. Qui Bojun, chairman of the software company, called 'China's Bill Gates' once said: ' Microsoft can make money around the world, but not in China .'

The WPS Office 2005 software suite has the same features as MS Office for only 1/10.Photo: KingSoft.

KingSoft representative said the company is promoting the final work to bring two WPS Office 2005 software products into Vietnam. In April 2006, Mr. Qui Bojun, chairman of KingSoft Group, went to work with leaders of related ministries. The work of localizing the product is underway and it is expected that the software will be available in the market this year at only one tenth the price of Microsoft products.

Talking to VnExpress, Mr. Qui Bojun said WPS Office 2005 is fully compatible with MS Office. MS Word can fully open and process WPS text files and vice versa.

Impressive open source but not yet

While cheap software is not popular in Vietnam, open source software suddenly emerged as the only solution for the "copyright tightening" with cost "only about 10-20 USD per machine. count ". But experts say there is absolutely nothing for free. The change of users' habits will have to be calculated in cash and it is unlikely that the money is smaller than the purchase of copyright for other products.

Besides, open source software is a product of the community, built by the users themselves, freely distributed and used. The weakest point in current open source applications in Vietnam is the force of computer users who are not sufficient in quality and quantity to continue upgrading. A small number of people build up with motivation just a hobby. Most just waiting for free software to be released is download and use.

Mr. Bui Quang Minh, Director of Hanoi Software Company, said the company itself has set up an VIEPortal open source network solution project. But the majority of participants just wait for something to finish to download, only a few participate in development. After an inefficient existence, VIEPortal must be closed. ' Without the community, open source software cannot be developed ,' Mr. Minh concluded.

Hung Hai