Waging War on Business

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi David,

Thanks for shedding some reasonability into this discussion.  Yes.  High
licensing fees do not justify theft, especially for business.  If you're
using pirated software, stolen property and other similarly illegal things
to make money, then shame on you!  Of course, they don't justify theft for
home users, either, but at least those users aren't using the stolen
property to make money!  I think that part of the reason for the high prices
has to do with software piracy.  The industry is trying to figure in the
costs of such piracy and is passing those costs along to legitimately
licensed users.

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----- Original Message -----
From: <daz@undertaker.homeip.net>
To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: Waging War on Business


> On 11 Feb 2003, Jim wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:04, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Actually, yeah.  If you cant pay, dont play.  Find alternatives.  The only
> problem I have with the BSA, et al is the 'guilty until proven innocent'
> bit.  The only reason software companies charge the "outrageous licensing
> fees" is because customers pay them.  If a competitive product exists, use
> that whether its OSS or not.  Or hire some developers to do in-house work
> :)
>
> David
>
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