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Linux "is not piracy" Says Microsoft Lawyer
dipfan writes "Further to this Slashdot piece on the activities of the Business Software Alliance, the BBC reports on a European conference on piracy organised by the BSA. The good news is even Microsoft distinguishes between open source software and piracy; it quotes Microsoft's top in-house lawyer Brad Smith as saying: 'Linux is a way of developing software whereas piracy is copying.' The rest of the article is the usual panic-attack about the size of software piracy in general, and how this is holding back the software industry in Eastern Europe, according to Brad. Although the article notes the irony that despite all the piracy, software sales are forecast to grow from $50 billion in 2000 to about $90 billion by 2005."
It may not be piracy, but it sure stole my heart.
aawwwwww...
The Jews and Christians don't because their god is the biggest, not the only.
Show me one place where Christians or Jews acknowledge the possible existance of any god but their own.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
That backhanded clarification is just what I needed!
"There is no truth to the rumours that Slashdot editors were denying that they were visited by authorities during a recent crackdown on child pornography on the internet."
Probably we can expect further helpful educational tidbits that properly conform to Political Advertisement 101 Guidelines for drive by association with bad company.
[Watch me go!]
I think I left out Terrorism® and Working Families®, but otherwise it's pretty easy to write crap like this."Provided by the management for your protection."
*grins* exactly - it's all about respect of other people.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
(since nobody ever understands what I'm referring to, this thing would have been over years ago if the Israelis knew how to manipulate world opinion like the other countries in the Middle East.
Israel concentrates on manipulating the opinion of one country, the USA.
And Muslims have a long history of destroying everyone else's holy places when they occupy a new land, because their god is the ONLY god. The Jews and Christians don't because their god is the biggest, not the only.)
Rather ignoring the point that the god worshiped by Jewdeism, Christianity and Islam is the same god.
Which is part of the problem with the city of Jerusalum.
Now thats one way to look at it.
> Americans are descended from us "Euro trash" Um... there are *some* americans who have no european ancestry. Try thinking before you type.
Evil gods include creations of human imagination (idols) - or creations of God who have rebelled (Satan "the god of this world", demons).
Good gods are subordinate to God. They include morally good creations of human imagination, Angels, and even Human Beings ("Ye are gods"). The difference with respect to New Age, is that New Age denies the existence of one Sovereign self-existent God.
As gods made in the image of God, Human beings have the power to create - Tolkein's world, computer simulated worlds. Our creations are not on the same level as the created universe we live in, but they inherit the moral qualities of their creators - for good or evil.
Even if I mainly use a windows box, I still think your sig is one of the more intelligent ones.
Yes, yes, offtopic, but also deeply nested, so I'm not too worried.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, though I'm not yet sure about the universe. - A Einstein