Comments on: BSA: victimising small businesses http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127/comment-page-1#comment-218487 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127#comment-218487 Look how the "Linux in schools" movement in Russia soared after microsoft and corrupt russian authorities went after Alex Ponosov (but never prosecuted the firm who supplied the computers and the software). BSA bullshit must be used for propaganda purposes by the Free Software crowd. Look how the “Linux in schools” movement in Russia soared after microsoft and corrupt russian authorities went after Alex Ponosov (but never prosecuted the firm who supplied the computers and the software).

BSA bullshit must be used for propaganda purposes by the Free Software crowd.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127/comment-page-1#comment-218426 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:16:38 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127#comment-218426 So the BSA got 13 million bucks but claims the software industry is hit for billions. Sounds like they are a pretty poor inforcement org. Since they hit "violators" for twice the full undiscounted retail price, they really detected a maximum of 6 million bucks in supposedly lost sales. And since their lawyers take 50% of the loot, the whole thing is a wash...AT BEST! So lets see.....they might be terribly inefficient. Or maybe that 13mil figure indicates that the software industry isnt really losing billions of bucks after all. Now that should be good news for all the big software companies, no? Alas, they will continue to insist they are losing billions, that their little narc squad is doing just great and their software must continue to increase in price and complexity just to foil pirates. And this makes sense to them. So the BSA got 13 million bucks but claims the software industry is hit for billions. Sounds like they are a pretty poor inforcement org. Since they hit “violators” for twice the full undiscounted retail price, they really detected a maximum of 6 million bucks in supposedly lost sales. And since their lawyers take 50% of the loot, the whole thing is a wash…AT BEST! So lets see…..they might be terribly inefficient. Or maybe that 13mil figure indicates that the software industry isnt really losing billions of bucks after all. Now that should be good news for all the big software companies, no? Alas, they will continue to insist they are losing billions, that their little narc squad is doing just great and their software must continue to increase in price and complexity just to foil pirates. And this makes sense to them.

]]> By: x http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127/comment-page-1#comment-218401 x Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:05:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14127#comment-218401 Free Software is your friend. Free Software is your friend.

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