Comments on: Cuba loosens reins under Raul Castro, allows first home computers http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/05/03/cuba-loosens-reigns-under-raul-castro-allows-first-home-computers/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ralph http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/03/cuba-loosens-reigns-under-raul-castro-allows-first-home-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-87747 Ralph Sat, 03 May 2008 19:19:19 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=5086#comment-87747 If they are Windows computers, who supplied them? Isn't there a trading embargo in effect? How can MSFT legally allow activations of XP or Vista in computers in a country that has a trading embargo with the United States? Unless they are bootleg copies of Windows or MSFT and the State Department are looking the other way? If the computers were bought from China or through some other third country, and activated there and then sold in Cuba. Then what difference would it be if we had stores here in the United states selling Cuban cigars ? Or stores that bought Cuban cigars from Canadian or Mexican importers and then sold here. If there is a law, enforce it and make companies be liable for breaking the embargo laws...or do away with the embargo entirely. If they are Windows computers, who supplied them? Isn’t there a trading embargo in effect? How can MSFT legally allow activations of XP or Vista in computers in a country that has a trading embargo with the United States?

Unless they are bootleg copies of Windows or MSFT and the State Department are looking the other way?

If the computers were bought from China or through some other third country, and activated there and then sold in Cuba.

Then what difference would it be if we had stores here in the United states selling Cuban cigars ? Or stores that bought Cuban cigars from Canadian or Mexican importers and then sold here.

If there is a law, enforce it and make companies be liable for breaking the embargo laws…or do away with the embargo entirely.

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