Waging War on Business

[Jim]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:04, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> In some ways, this practice does not seem overly unreasonable to me.  After
> all, stealing is stealing.  Its one thing for home users to do this, but it
> is quite another more serious matter for a business to be using stolen
> software as tools to make money!  If a business is doing the right thing
> with respect to its software use, then there should be no need for amnesty
> or for worries about what a disgruntled employee might say.  Just my $.02...
> 

So the logi is that the monopolist charges inflated prices that the
small business can't afford so he must seek alternatives and if the BSA
(a.k.a. MS and Adobe) catch you, they will drive you out of business
because you couldnt or wouldnt pay their outrageous licensing fees.

Ah, America - land of corporate greed

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Lindley" <wlindley@wlindley.com>
> To: "Phoenix Linux Users Group" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:53 PM
> Subject: Waging War on Business
> 
> 
> > How do you spell extortion? BSA, RIAA, DMCA
> > (InfoWorld)  By Tom  Yager January 31, 2003
> >
> > In Dallas , the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is running radio ads
> > offering amnesty to businesses. Confess your companywide software piracy
> > before the end of February, the announcer gently offers, and you'll only
> > have to pay your overdue license fees. That seems reasonable enough, but
> > then the ad turns dark. If you have just one disgruntled ex-employee out
> > there, a BSA spokesperson intones, his call to the BSA could cost you
> > $150,000 for each user it deems unlicensed. One disgruntled ex-employee,
> > one competitor, one vendor that couldn't sell you a license renewal -- a
> > tip's a tip.
> >
> > Rest of the story --
> >
> > http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05estrat_1.html?business
> >
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 Jim

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