HCM CITY — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) inspectorate, in co-operation with the Hi-tech Crime Department of the Ministry of Public Security, found four companies using pirated software valued at nearly US$1 million in separate raids in Ha Noi, HCM City and Hai Phong.
The companies, which operate in the manufacturing, construction, trading and real estate industries, were found to be using 712 unlicensed software products in their business operations, including Lac Viet and BKIS software made by Vietnamese software developers.
"The companies are large ones. They can certainly afford to buy genuine software," said Pham Xuan Phuc, deputy chief inspector of MoCST. "One of them even has registered capital of $10 million."
Click here for the entire article: Viet Nam News, 13 october 2011
