Ernie Ball

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Excellent article!  Perhaps Microsoft's bully-boy tactics will benefit the 
> Linux cause more than anything.
> I was wondering, though-- the Infoworld article quoted the BSA as saying that 
> $10.9 billion was lost to piracy in 2001.  Does anybody have any idea how 
> they derived this figure?

Probably: PCs shipped - Windows sold = pirated copies. And if you are 
willing to pirate windows, you would probably pirate all of the other 
'covered' software so add those license costs into the mix as well. Unless 
they mean that pirates boarded the boats they used to ship software 
plundered the software ships and stole their cds. 

> I ask because I believe that many, if not most, of 
> the statistics thrown at us in the media are numbers that were distorted or 
> fabricated in order to influence public policy.  (I could cite a dozen 
> examples off the top of my head, but I don't want to get too far OT.)
> 
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
> 
> On Monday 02 December 2002 08:22, you wrote:
> > <http://infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/27/021127hnerniball.xml?s=IDGNS
> >>
> >
> > Craig
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