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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Software pirates put sizeable dent in UK economy
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>> | The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claimed today in its annual "Global
>> | Software Piracy Study" ? which was carried out by analyst firm IDC ?
>> | that a reduction in counterfeit software by ten per cent over four years
>> | could add an extra £4.46bn to Blighty's economy.
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>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/22/bsa_software_piracy/
>>
>> Both are funded by Bill Gates and/or Microsoft (evidence below). Just more
>> lies and imaginary figures to pass new laws.
>
>
> BSA$ is a dishonest conspiracy. They can and should be promoting
> GNU/Linux and free software as a means to combating software theft
> in schools and colleges. They should not be allowed to enter
> schools and colleges until the reverse their policies on spreading
> the word of free software like http://www.livecdlist.com
> http://www.distrowatch.com http://www.fsf.org
Don't give the BSA these addresses. They would DDOS these sites to protect
their 'precious' careers of defending dying business models.
Case of point:
What about selling free software
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| Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation's licensing officer, in an
| article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a
| northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software.
|
| The trading officer was concerned by a group that was burning the
| free Mozilla Browser on CDs and selling it.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/what_about_selling_free_software
Legality of Fedora in production environment
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| Recently the appropriate laws in my country (Russia) have beens
| ignificantly toughened. Now the police can check for illegal software
| usage by their own initiative (without request from the owner). The
| tax inspection demands that software should be registered at
| accounts departments.
|
| During such a checking, the user is obliged now to show all hardcopy
| license documents (with original signatures and stamps).
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg00697.html
> They should also not represent any member (like Micoshaft Corporation
> for example) who hasn't spend $0.20 on a $699 product to protect it
> because it is they (the Micoshaft's of this world) that are promoting
> piracy and the BSA$ conspiracy is extending the pirate network
> through conspiring with unprotected software.
>
> Schools and governers need to see the dishonesty of the BSA$ conspiracy
> for what it is, and parents should be writing to schools to complain
> about the BSA$ if they show up without free software as a rememdy
> for software piracy in their portfolio.
Open source (not just Free software) is already making the BSA more and more
redundant by the day. They ought to just look ahead and consider a career
change rather than resorting to such propaganda and attacks on Free software
(see OP... those shills are working alongside Microsoft to intercept open
source bills around the world).
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