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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.
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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."