11 Responses to “Counterfeit Software At Wateen Kiosks”

1. Saad Najeeb
   November 27th, 2009 @ 5:02 pm

   wow!…i think that this put not a gud reputation on the company image, and specially on the places like airport where lots of international customers are also expected. Lets see what the company officials have to say about this!!!

2. Obaid Nasir
   November 27th, 2009 @ 6:14 pm

   thanks for sharing … nice observation !

3. BA
   November 27th, 2009 @ 11:27 pm

   lol

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   November 28th, 2009 @ 12:23 am

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5. Muhammad Saad Siddiqui
   November 28th, 2009 @ 7:38 am

   This shows that how much we are used to of using pirated software… this is all because people are not fully aware of the benefits of using opensource Operating systems… but here we have a big multinational with such a blunder… i just can’t express my feelings that how bad it looked on an airport where we have frequent visitors of foreign nationalities…..

6. Bilal
   November 28th, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

   Its not their fault. I have a legitimate copy as well and I suffer from this. Most likely somebody stole or duplicated the serial key

7. Arsalan Mir
   November 28th, 2009 @ 2:05 pm

   @ Bilal

   If that is the case the issue must be resolved because it is earning bad name for the company.

8. Rafaeel Akbar Chaudhry
   November 28th, 2009 @ 2:29 pm

   If WATEEN would have bought the corporate version, this error would not have come because corporate serials are for large organizations with multiple systems.

   When i worked in WARID back in 2005, a similar case was filed against WARID for using pirated softwares after which they started buying original versions of all softwares. Don’t know about Wateen and current situation of Warid.

9. Arsalan Mir
   November 28th, 2009 @ 2:39 pm

   Thanks for sharing the Warid story Rafaeel. Another point to note over here is that these kiosks are supported by Ministry of IT. They should look in it. If we restrict the use of pirated softwares at upper level then only we can think to eliminate piracy from lower level.

10. Murtaza Fazal
    November 30th, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

    strange. as at the microsoft windows 7 launch , the Microsoft ppl as well as the CEO of Warid Telecom said they r in some kind of deal but still they using pirated windows ..that’s sad !!!

11. Umar
    December 1st, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

    Not surprised at all. Wateen is one of the worst companies to do business with. Not having the authentic software is the least of the wrongs the company has done.

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