In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:19:28 +0100
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> Pirating Microsoft Windows will get you a life sentence
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Details of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Intellectual
> | Property Protection Act of 2007, will criminalise "attempting"
> | to infringe copyright.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39642
>
It is already a criminal action to violate copyright with
a loss of $1000 or more. (How that's calculated, the DMCA
does not appear to stipulate.)
>
> Related:
>
> Ballmer hints at tougher Vista antipiracy crackdown
>
> http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;7680622;fp;16;fpid;1
>
>
> Average Indian person just gets a copy of pirated Windows instead of a free
> and legal copy of Linux
>
> http://www.webpublishingforum.com/about965.html
>
Of course. It's more useful. :-) At least, so go the statements of
certain Wintrolls. Plus, Microsoft has a bigger advertising budget,
and therefore can make Windows sound like the greatest thing since
sliced bread.
(At least in theory. Not everyone goes to the trouble of verifying it,
obviously.)
>
> Chinese attitude on buying Vista
>
> http://ya.iyee.cn/2007/02/chinese-attitude-on-buying-vista.html
>
US GDP/cap/year: $40K
Vista Ultimate Price: $395
Vacuum Flowers Time [*]: 20 hours [1/2 week]
China GDP/cap/year: $7.6K
Vista Ultimate Price: RMB2600
Chinese Official (?) Exchange: 7.6636 RMB / US$1
VUP: $339
Vacuum Flowers Time [*]: 89 hours [2 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour]
The author exaggerates, though not by much, and in any event,
I'm not sure what the median income is; I only have the
mean, courtesy of the CIA World Factbook.
Were Bill Gates making $12B a year (the exact amount is not
clear to me at this time, and money by the ultra rich gets
a little funny anyway), that would throw the GDP/cap/year
off by about $40.00.
>
> Piracy of software, and why it helps software companies
>
> http://blog.jeffkee.com/2007/02/14/piracy-of-software-and-why-it-helps-software-companies/
>
>
> Why Piracy Hurts Open Source
>
> http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000266
>
>
> Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux
>
> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
>
>
> How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows
>
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-micropiracy9apr09,0,414067.story?track=tottext
>
>
> Why piracy kills Open Source
>
> http://youmaybeinterrupting.com/desktop.php?view&postid=12&a=apps%2FBlog%3B%3B
[*] a more prosaic description would be "number of hours
needed to generate the price required, given the
gross wages specified". There are a few issues such
as taxes that I've not taken into consideration,
but then, neither did the author of Vacuum Flowers
(Michael Swanwick). :-) Of course we don't have
salary bracelets, though some have mentioned using
one's mobile phone as a wallet. Vacuum Flowers also
used minutes/day (for room rent) instead of hours,
but that's a detail.
The calculation is simply
#hours = price / ((gdp/cap/year) / (50 wks/year * 40 hrs/week)).
The more proper 52 would inflate the time slightly.
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