Substituting software imports with local and open-source products
It is gratifying to read Dhaka Tribune news reports that Bangladesh’s export of software has finally reached $191 million in the last financial year.
However, before getting complacent, we should recall that the indicator of international competitiveness in any industry is net exports, which is the value of exports minus imports. Positive net exports in any sector implies that the country sells more to the world than it buys, and is thus truly independent in that sector.
When we try to calculate net exports of software from Bangladesh, however, we run into a major problem. We know that the vast majority of computers in the country run pirated versions of MS Windows and MS Office.
These have not been paid for, but by law, they must be paid for as software piracy is illegal (however, the laws of intellectual property are poorly enforced and so pirated DVDs of Microsoft software are widely available). However, we can calculate the economic value of pirated Microsoft software from published statistics and market prices.
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