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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.
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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.
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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
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| 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?
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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.
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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.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10099.html
Piracy's global economic impact debated
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| 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.
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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.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/08/the_software_co.html
Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
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| 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.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/dont-copy-that-flopp-1.html
Is The BSA Purposely Promoting Open Source Alternatives?
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| 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.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2302305104.shtml
How many billions is open-source software worth?
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| 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?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_billions_is_open_source_software_worth
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