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		<title>Die Polen mögen keine Schwarzen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; so denkt zumindest Microsoft, die sich ja nie für einen &#8220;Gag&#8221; zu schade sind. Auf Ihrer amerikanischen Website machen sie mit diesem Bild Werbung für irgendwelche Software &#8230; Für die polnische Website wurde der ursprünglich abgebildete Afroamerikaner kurzerhand enthauptet &#8230; <a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/2009/08/die-polen-mogen-keine-schwarzen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; so denkt zumindest Microsoft, die sich ja <a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/2007/11/counterfeit-software/">nie für einen &#8220;Gag&#8221;</a> zu schade sind.</p>
<p>Auf Ihrer <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspx">amerikanischen Website</a> machen sie mit diesem Bild Werbung für irgendwelche Software &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms1.jpg"><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms1-300x236.jpg" alt="US version" title="US version" width="300" height="236" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1044" /></a></p>
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<p>Für die <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default.mspx">polnische Website</a> wurde der ursprünglich abgebildete Afroamerikaner kurzerhand enthauptet und sein Kopf durch den eines hellerhäutigen Mannes ersetzt. Das sah dann so aus &#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms2.jpg"><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms2-300x236.jpg" alt="Polish Version" title="Polish Version" width="300" height="236" class="aligncenter  size-medium wp-image-1045" /></a></p>
<p>Ups, seine Hand ist noch ganz schön dunkel &#8211; wenn nicht sogar braun gebrannt, wahrscheinlich frisch aus dem sonnigen Urlaub zurück. Aber Microsoft ist auch nicht gerade für Bildbearbeitungssoftware bekannt. Zumindest scheinen sie fest davon auszugehen, dass ein Kaukasier viel besser bei den Polen ankommt als ein Afroamerikaner.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a> hat nun <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/its-a-meme-get-photoshop-warmed-up-and-win-a-bing-tshirt/">zu einem Wettbewerb</a> aufgerufen, dass ursprüngliche Bild selbst zu modifizieren. Ein erster Vorschlag sieht zum Beispiel so aus &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms3.jpg"><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ms3-300x156.jpg" alt="TechCrunch Version" title="TechCrunch Version" width="300" height="156" class="aligncenter  size-medium wp-image-1046" /></a></p>
<p>[gefunden via und Bilder von TechCrunch <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/25/marketing-decapitation-in-poland-asians-ok-blacks-maybe-not/">1</a>/<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/its-a-meme-get-photoshop-warmed-up-and-win-a-bing-tshirt/">2</a>, siehe auch <a href="http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-poland-at-least-they-left.html">PhotoshopDisasters</a>]</p>
<p><em>Update (27.08.2009):</em> Lt. <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Microsoft-Polen-wehrt-sich-gegen-Rassismus-Vorwurf--/meldung/144351">heise.de</a> kann sich Microsoft nicht erklären, wie das Bild auf seine polnische Seite gelangt ist. Es war ein &#8220;Versehen&#8221;. Die Bildberarbeiter wurden gefeuert.</p>
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		<title>Counterfeit software</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As announced by heise online today, our fellows from Redmond have initiated a new Web site to warn you about counterfeit software (Check out &#8220;Protect Yourself&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;View examples of counterfeit software&#8221;). For example this &#8230; [taken from www.howtotell.com] &#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://www.apfelkraut.org/2007/11/counterfeit-software/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As announced by <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/98320">heise online</a> today, our fellows from Redmond have initiated a new <a href="http://www.howtotell.com">Web site</a> to warn you about counterfeit software (Check out &#8220;Protect Yourself&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;View examples of counterfeit software&#8221;). For example this &#8230; </p>
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<p><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/gallery/various/XP_Prof_counterfeit.jpg" alt="Pirate copy" align="middle" height="200" width="200" /></p>
<p>[taken from <a href="http://www.howtotell.com">www.howtotell.com</a>]</p>
<p>&#8230; is a counterfeit copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, really!</p>
<p>In my Oxford Advanced Dictionary the term <em>counterfeit</em> is defined as &#8220;deliberately made so as to be exactly like sth., in order to deceive&#8221; amongst others. In respect of this interpretation I see myself obliged to slightly modify this warning:</p>
<p><strong>Attention !!!</strong></p>
<p>Most probably you have received a CD with your new computer or quite unlikely you have received it after handing over quite a bunch of money to your favorite dealer. So if this CD looks something like this:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/gallery/various/XP_genuine_1.jpg" alt="Geniune Windows" align="middle" height="222" width="222" /><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/gallery/various/XP_genuine_2.jpg" alt="Genuine Windows" align="middle" height="150" width="200" /></p>
<p>[taken from <a href="http://www.howtotell.com">www.howtotell.com</a>]</p>
<p><strong>Be aware that you have been deceived !</strong> Although the finishing with the amazing glittering holograms might suggest that you are holding a CD with a high-end, secure, user friendly and multi-tasking operating system in your hands &#8230; I am sorry, but this is a fallacy! It is just Windows &#8230; and you might agree that you can get cheaper and presumably more beautiful saucers at your local housewares store.</p>
<p>But if the CD looks similar to this one:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.apfelkraut.org/gallery/various/ubuntu.jpg" alt="Gutsy Gibbon" align="middle" height="222" width="222" /></p>
<p><strong>Congratulations !</strong> You made the right choice and are holding a CD with a real high-end, secure, user friendly and multi-tasking operating system in your hands. Even if the finishing of the CD and the way how you got it may not be as our fellows from Redmond want it. Let me guess &#8230; it was handed over to you by a long-haired, round-bellied, pizza-addicted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd">nerd</a> (if one may allow me to draw this meanwhile old-fashioned picture of those &#8220;Linux guys&#8221;)? Or did you even just <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download">download</a> it from the Internet and burn it by yourself?! So as long as there is something like <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://en.opensuse.org">SuSE</a> or <a href="http://distrowatch.com">whatever Linux distro</a> on the CD, you can be sure that you have chosen the right <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">OS</a>.</p>
<p><strong>@Microsoft:</strong> Do you really think that the use of your software makes so stupid that one cannot distinguish between a genuine copy or a counterfeit copy of your masterpieces? Or let me put it another way, who at all would make an illegal copy of your software while there is <a href="http://freshmeat.net">software for nearly every need</a> available for free?</p>
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