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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. Hmmmmmm by curtisk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post? Probably not

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    1. Re:Hmmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, I agree. floater rules

  2. sp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post...

  3. Re:Sad news... Wil Wheaton dead at 30 by Morky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and the kid who played Bobby Brady just passed away after consuming an entire bag of pop-rocks and a coke.

  4. Damm script kiddies by Fembot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SkR1pt K1dd13s

  5. 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."

  6. Related news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On a related note, the Linux Buttplug company received a legal notice from Tove Torvalds. It seems they're infringing on her IP rights regarding an invention she came up with. The fully qualified martial arts champion stood on her husband's chest in spiked heels at the press conference where she delivered the Cease And Desist notice to the Linux Buttplug CEO.

    Corel Software, makers of the rubber 'Tux' buttplug that was bundled with the Corel Linux boxed OS product, had no comment.

  7. 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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  8. Re:Sad news... Wil Wheaton dead at 30 by Fig,+formerly+A.C. · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The most amusing thing about the parent post is that it was actually modded "informative".

    Mods on crack... LOL

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  9. 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?

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

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

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