Reply to post: Re: So?

The trade ban that wasn't: US allows 94% of restricted tech exports to China anyway

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Re: So?

> They're not reviewed if my experience is anything to go by.

I remember my first time in Iran, having been briefed that my own company wouldn't pick up the support line if we called, because sanctions, and my surprise at seeing that everyone ran Windows computers. :)

Yeah many were bootlegs, but ours weren't. Apparently Microsoft are always exempt from whatever "sanctions" the septics decide to impose, lest someone else filled the void and became a real competitor (cf. Huawei – which my autocorrect refuses to spell, amusingly)

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