Bill Gates: 10 years to control piracy in India and China

Bill Gates: 10 years to control piracy in India and China

World’s richest man and the chairman of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates has said that it might take them 10 years to control the piracy levels in countries like China and India. Gates said that it would take a lot of efforts to bring the kind of compliance they have in North America and European countries.

Gates said in a statement at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “In India and China it will be a decade before we get that level. But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it’s a great place where we have people working for us.”

He also mentioned that the situation is improving every coming year and they hope that the company would get the support from the respective governments to apply anti-piracy laws as it has been done in other Asian countries like Taiwan and South Korea. Microsoft has seen a massive growth in their software sales in China and is also expanding fast in the Indian market.

Gates added: “There have been sectors that the richest country, the United States, has been very unique in driving — computer technology, aerospace, biological products. But if you take the things that create innovation, like people trained in science and engineering, and compare it we’ve had this huge shift.”