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BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors

Posted by michael on from the premature-exclamation dept.

sqrt529 writes "A German university was accused by the BSA of pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The scripts from the BSA only check for "Office" in the filename and then automatically send out notices to the ftp admins. Did any of you get similar notices from the BSA?"

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  1. hrm, rather like a certain international crisis... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This reminds me of the current imbroglio at the UN:

    "Iraq was accused by the US of harboring weapons of mass destruction. It seems the Pentagon only checks for whether Saddam Hussein is in power, and automatically issues new resolutions to the UN calling for war."

  2. Website Logs by OYAHHH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On a related note, couldn't the fact that Internet Explorer reports itself as being Mozilla 4.0 (etc.) in my website's log be construed as a misappropriation of intellectual property?

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  3. Eh??? by Krumme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't get this - but granted, I didn't read the article.

    I sell Microsoft Office for a living, and the installation files for Microsoft Office (or any other product) can be purchased from us at approx. $40 a piece.
    For this amount of money, you get an original, holographic cd complete with codes and all. This is perfectly legal - but in order to actually use the program, you have to buy a license, but this is in no way coupled to the physical installation files...

    In other words, if you have a copy of Office lying around, it has a value of $40. Not a lot, eh?

  4. BSA harrases YOU! by MonopolyNews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... in Old Soviet Russia, just like here.

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