Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft files 20 software lawsuits
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> | The lawsuits, filed against 20 defendants throughout the United States,
> | are against companies that allegedly distributed counterfeit software or
> | software components or participated in hard-disk loading, Microsoft
> | said.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060919:MTFH42172_2006-09-19_07-15-44_WEN5596&type=comktNews&rpc=44
> http://tinyurl.com/lf5rj
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> Why piracy kills Open Source
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> | Because for them, the price is the same.
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> | So, please, Microsoft, defend your own products, and don't allow users
> | to use pirated versions. You'll be doing the best for the Open Source
> | products.
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http://youmaybeinterrupting.com/desktop.php?view&postid=12&a=apps%2FBlog%3B%3B
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> Hong Kong broadcaster wins piracy case in China
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> | China is one of the world's counterfeiting hotspots, with anything from
> | the unlicensed manufacture of branded clothing to the broadcast of
> | movies and television shows without permission a concern to
> | international efforts to clamp down on the multi-billion-dollar trade.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060918/tc_afp/hongkongchinapiracymediainternetjustice
> http://tinyurl.com/e7cgm
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> China reports major anti-piracy move
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> | The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing
> | 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency
> | said...
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I couldn't see where MS shot itself in the foot.
It has a right to defend it's license. As we have a right to defend ours. If
we are willing to accept piracy of MS win, music, films and TV shows then
we can't really grumble if some enterprise takes up a linux, slaps some
closed source goodies onto it and sells it on to the public ignoring our
license altogether.
Lets take a possible scenario. Wine comes up with a super duper do it all
Windows emmulator. They slap it onto a Linux, make wine the only shell with
a XP look-a-like HTML front page and do a massive advertising campaign
telling MS users that they can run all of their applications and games, $10
for the standard version, $20 for the advanced version and $30 for the
advanced standard version, oh and $399 for the advanced standard ultimate
version. (MS marketing techniques, if nothing else at least it makes you
laugh).
They would have a potentially huge market, could very quickly be the biggest
selling Linux, indeed biggest selling OS, and could say poo poo to you lot
in advocacy, we're off to the Bahamas for a while.
We have to be serious about licenses, because our license depends on the
same license system that MS is fighting to support.
DISCLAIMER: As far as I know the developers of Wine do not have any plans to
move to the Bahamas, at this current time. However I believe they have a
caravan in Brighton which is on time share.
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