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Microsoft wins lawsuit
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| The lawsuit accused AllPro of distributing computer systems that were loaded
| with unauthorized copies of Windows XP Pro and Office 2003 software.
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http://www.fox23.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=6621671c-4a68-4502-afdb-6fcb88cad0aa
Microsoft expands get genuine solution to include windows vista
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| Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd on Monday announced the availability of
| the Get Genuine Solution (GGS) for Windows Vista whereby Small and Medium
| Businesses (SMBs) can easily legalize their counterfeit or unlicensed Windows
| Vista PCs.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Microsoft_expands_get_genuine_solution_to_include_windows_vista/articleshow/3751220.cms
propaganda language:
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| With piracy levels in the Indian market as high as 69 per cent, there is a
| large number of businesses with existing PCs in need of legalization due to
| counterfeit, under-licensing, mis-licensing and version piracy scenarios.
| According to a study on The Economic Benefits of Lowering PC Software Piracy
| 2008 a ten point reduction in PC software piracy would deliver an additional
| 44,000 new jobs, 200 million dollars in tax revenues, and 3.1 billion dollars
| in economic growth in India.
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No mention of free software and just more lies (typically via the cronies at
BSA and/or IDC) about 'loss' to the economy.
This is what people read in the paper. The writers make no attempt to show that
Free (gratis and libre) solutions do exist. Here is a new exception in another
new propagaricle:
"Pirates of the IT World"
Pirates of the IT World
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| The term ‘software piracy’ was first brought to life by software companies to
| connote crime. A more neutral term is ‘copyright infringement of software.’
| There is widespread criticism of software companies for using the
| word ‘pirate’ to describe a user who makes an illegal copy of software, since
| it implies that the copyright violator is a serious criminal. Much of this
| criticism comes from advocates for ‘open source’ software, i.e. software that
| is free to own, distribute and edit.
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| [...]
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| Open source is a software development method where every program must have
| its source code available to developers to modify the program. This contrasts
| with the ‘closed source’ method of software development. Advocates of
| proprietary software accuse open source software of being less innovative
| because developers do not receive monetary rewards for their products and are
| therefore less motivated to improve their products.
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| Some advocates of open source software, especially activists and
| professionals in the software industry, think that software should not be
| treated like ‘property’ and human knowledge should be shared with the general
| public so it is available for everyone’s benefit. They also believe that the
| source code (the instructions, in human-readable code, that allow a program
| to run) should be ‘open’ for anyone to use, change or improve the software
| for personal use or redistribution. There is also a general belief that open
| source software is more secure because anyone can fix security defects that
| might later be discovered in the code.
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http://www.businesstodayegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=8199
The remainder is just BSA accusations, extensive use of the word "piracy", etc.
Microsoft's sales are declining. Not it's just raping the market... like a
pirate.
Recent:
Anti-piracy day? No thanks
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| Today is Microsoft’s self-declared Global Anti-Piracy Day. No surprise then
| that the local arm of the Business Software Alliance has been ringing up
| journalists over the past couple of days with the ominous news that South
| Africa is losing between R2.8 billion to software pirates every year.
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| As usual, the BSA statements are sweeping and presumptive.
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| For a start, South Africa doesn’t really lose all this money. Most of the
| licensing money heads straight overseas to companies like Microsoft and Adobe
| with this country holding on to very little of it.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3405
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