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This image shows how it was in Brazil around 2006:

the general manager of Worldwide Anti-Piracy at Microsoft, Keith Beeman, looking at the copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 sold on Sao Paulo streets for R$10 (something like 5 USD).

https://web.archive.org/web/20070119230014im_/http://g1.glob...

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The soviets would copy stuff too!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Antonov_...

It's not exactly a copy (though espionage took place): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_programme

There are numerous examples where soviets copied western technologies changing little except the name but Buran is not one of them.

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