DFS wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Ever since we learned that the Canadian Alliance Against Software
>>> Theft doesn't take into account open source software when it comes
>>> up with its annual piracy statistics, we stopped reporting their
>>> numbers. When you only look at proprietary shipments, you miss a
>>> great piece of the puzzle. We just don't know how big a piece it is.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/shane/2007/12/12/why-open-source-has-always-deserved-a-census/
>
> Classic: "We know OSS is big - we just can't prove it."
>
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>
>> Get free software and save a fortune
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> Though the most popular open- source package is ubuntu, funded by
>>> local entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, South African business is
>>> generally paying dearly for its ignorance of free software, says a
>>> study by international market research firm Frost and Sullivan.
>>>
>>> The report, South African Open Source Market, said allegations by
>>> large developers, led by Microsoft, and the Business Software
>>> Alliance, of piracy
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> and copyright violations have cast a shadow over the legitimacy of
>>> free software.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.thetimes.co.za/Business/Article.aspx?id=602887
>
> How legitimate can something like OpenOffice Base be? From the interface
> down to the names of many built-in OO Basic functions, it's clearly a
> poorly
> attempted clone of MS Access. Why don't the OO developers have any
> original ideas?
Ca...Ching!
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