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[News] IIPA's Attack on Free Software is Actually BSA, Defending Microsoft "Choice"

  • Subject: [News] IIPA's Attack on Free Software is Actually BSA, Defending Microsoft "Choice"
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:53:18 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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IIPA thinks open source equals piracy

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| The reason they should be put on the list? 
| Their governments encourage (but do not 
| mandate) their administrations to use open 
| source software. Obviously, this reduces 
| the revenue of cost software vendors and 
| publishers, but it is a real stretch to 
| call this piracy. The governments are 
| simply making business decisions, weighing 
| costs and benefits. And given the quality 
| of open source software and operating 
| systems, that decision is rather easy. 
`----

http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002629

Encouraging open source could land you in trouble

http://www.technollama.co.uk/encouraging-open-source-could-land-you-in-trouble

All Source is âOpen Sourceâ to Someone

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| Look. I wasnât surprised when Microsoft 
| launched yet another patent/IP FUD attack 
| against Linux and Open Source, and Iâm not 
| surprised that some organization with the 
| Business Software Alliance as a member is 
| attacking Open Source.
| 
| Break it on down now
| 
| You need to understand something: the BSA 
| is basically a front organization for 
| Microsoft and has consistently and 
| continuously lobbied against Free and Open 
| Source Software.
| 
| They have done everything anti-Open Source 
| they can short of printing up stickers of 
| Calvin pissing on a penguin.
| 
| To understand where the BSA is coming from 
| â or if you find yourself in need of an 
| emetic â read its 2005 publication Open 
| Source and Commercial Software: An In-Depth 
| Analysis of the Issues. The bias against 
| Free and Open Source Software is present in 
| virtually every single sentence; much of it 
| serves as talking points for Microsoft 
| apologists and the IIPA âreportâ.
`----

http://www.the-source.com/2010/02/all-source-is-open-source-to-someone/

Open source software is a communist plot

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1593573/open-source-software-communist-plot

Time to name and shame the anti-open source extremists

,----[ Quote ]
| Since I began writing this blog in 2005 I 
| have watched open source move from a fringe 
| idea to something embraced by the IT 
| mainstream.
| 
| But there are still extremists out there 
| who want to destroy open source. Some of 
| their names may surprise you.
| 
| What they have done is retreat into a group 
| where they seek not to be identified.
| 
| The International Intellectual Property 
| Alliance dates from 1984, before open 
| source began, and is thus the perfect front 
| group for this activity.
| 
| [...]
| 
| If the BSAâs position has reversed, if it 
| now wants to use the force of the U.S. 
| government to drive open source under, then 
| its members are also against open source. 
| But the BSAâs membership includes IBM, HP, 
| Cisco, Adobe, and Dell â some of the 
| biggest boosters and biggest beneficiaries 
| of open source on the planet.
| 
| Itâs time to ask these companies. Do you 
| agree with the position of the trade group 
| you belong to? Should you continue to 
| support a trade group that is acting 
| against your corporate interests?
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5952


Recent:

The Likely Victims of This Year's BSA raid: Internet Cafe's and 
Other Computer Rental Businesses

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| Do you run a business that involves any form
| of computer rental such as internet cafe, for-
| profit computer training center, and/or hotel
| that provides computers for the convenience of
| the guests? Do you live in a country like
| Taiwan where BSA (Business Software Alliance)
| does yearly raid to small and medium
| businesses with the help of your government
| because they are pressured by, or have some
| inconvenient relationship with BSA? My guess
| is that BSA will target this new group of
| software "pirates" -- yes even if they have
| already paid for the first layer of the
| Microsoft taxes. But there is a way -- maybe
| even a much more profitable way -- out if you
| are willing to try diskless computers + mother
| tongue bootable usb keys.
`----

http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/101k


SA bangs piracy drum

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| Most users will simply do without the software or
| switch to something more affordable or even open
| source. A huge part of the problem with software
| is that it is expensive and most users just can't
| afford the price tag. Having a pirated copy is
| nice but not nice enough to convince them to hand
| over thousands of rands to buy a legitimate copy.
`----

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10099.html


Piracy's global economic impact debated

,----[ Quote ]
| But critics of the study say it fails to account for the possibility that
| pirated software could be replaced with Linux or other open-source options. If
| it were, the BSA's global loss figure of $53 billion would drop sharply, they
| maintain.
`----

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/342057/Piracy_s_global_economic_impact_debated?taxonomyId=18


Open Source: One Sure Way To Keep Piracy At Bay

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| The BSA won't tell you that the best way to avoid software piracy is to use
| software that cannot, by definition, be pirated. Then again, the BSA also
| won't tell you that a disgruntled ex-employee decided to make your life
| miserable by giving them a call.
`----

http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/08/the_software_co.html


Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying

,----[ Quote ]
| The BSA are, of course, big proponents of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement, which would require signatories to send noncommercial copiers to
| prison, so I suppose that there's something to this threat.
`----

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/dont-copy-that-flopp-1.html


Is The BSA Purposely Promoting Open Source Alternatives?

,----[ Quote ]
| So, what is the BSA doing? Yes, that's right, it's pumping up its software
| audit program, sending 1,000 audit letters to companies in London, officially
| demanding they detail their software usage -- while unofficially acting as a
| tremendous advertisement for open source software, where providers don't
| treat their customers as if they were criminals.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2302305104.shtml


How many billions is open-source software worth?

,----[ Quote ]
| In other words, using OSS isn't about being anti-Microsoft or believing in
| some sort of open-source ethical rightfulness, using OSS is simply a smart
| business move. Indeed, at $387-billion in value, OSS is twice as valuable as
| Microsoft's current net worth of $183.5-billion. Not bad for 'free software'
| is it?
`----

http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_billions_is_open_source_software_worth
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