Comments on: Taxes good, Free/Libre software bad, according to the BSA

By: paul

paul — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:08:00 +0000

good stuff, following with interest, helping me firm up my travel plans.

By: SRM

SRM — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:36:46 +0000

The un-licensed or illegally used software can be prevented by using a reliable licensing scheme and activating software online.
By doing so, you know which machine a license run on and you can disable the software it you think it is used illegally.

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:33:38 +0000

dred, don’t be to harsh to reader’s write. probably his adblock/noscript extension jsut blog images from that server which made him misunderstood me

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By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:54:44 +0000

Russell McOrmond, you are right. This is how that got to be.

A bunch of pigs didn’t like the water in the pond. It was too clean, tasteless. The pigs got together and got the pond owners to make the water dirty, in exchange for some bacon. The problem now is that the water is too dirty for all but the pigs, who love the pond the way it is. Also, the pond owners ate all the bacon and are always asking for more from the pigs. The pigs, that don’t even care if the water is fit for humans who own the pond are happy to comply.

By: Russell McOrmond

Russell McOrmond — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:00:46 +0000

“Please explain why âpiracyâ is a big major problem.
As far as I am concerned, this is a business model problem.”

While I agree that there are trivial business model solutions for software copyright infringement, this is not the same for all forms of copyrighted works. One of the failings of much of the copyright debate is the mistaken belief that all human creativity exists in the identical economic conditions, which is so trivially false. What is true of functional works like productivity software or educational/scientific/medical/legal/etc textbooks/papers/journals is not at all true for music, movies, television, which is different than fiction books, which is different than…

By: Thinker

Thinker — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:19:53 +0000

With the money I saved by installing Open Office at my 3 computers at home I will feed my family for three months.
So, freeware creates agriculture and food industry jobs.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:09 +0000

Please explain why “piracy” is a big major problem.

As far as I am concerned, this is a business model problem.

By: Dreddsnik

Dreddsnik — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:29:24 +0000

” > July 19th, 2008 at 9:32 am

FAIL. GTFO. ”

LOL

Someones sarcasm meter is broken … heh.

Most normal people get the joke fritz

By: Russell McOrmond

Russell McOrmond — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:12:19 +0000

hippie style FLOSS advocates? Most of the FLOSS types I know are pretty right-wing thinkers.

Ya — growing our own food is evil. In fact, doing anything for ourselves deprives someone of a job. I guess without the inheritance from daddy it is hard to do nothing and yet still pay all those people who actually work for a living…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:40:04 +0000

> July 19th, 2008 at 9:32 am

FAIL. GTFO.

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:32:26 +0000

Russell, hippie style FLOSS advocates like you ARE terrist to the agenda these people have! you probably jsut burn all your money that you do not spend on licenses for their great programms. Next we know you advocate not buying food anymore and grow your own vegetables instead robbing that way even more taxes now also from the farming industry!