Ernie Ball
Craig White
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
02 Dec 2002 09:39:34 -0700
No - but you can check this out...
<http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases//2002-10-31.1332.phtml?type=policy>
Craig
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 05:40, 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? 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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