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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. This is a simple case of ignore by Wizri · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is a simple case of ignore.
    Look at it, think for a sec that the BS Association is a Microsoft puppet, they are probably running VB for doing the testing with some really crappy programmer doing the work (and probably very last minute) on those scripts.

    Either way the BS Association has nothing on the university.

  2. my rights online by syle · · Score: 1, Troll
    So, the someone at the BSA made a mistake with their scripts, and when it was noticed they immediately apologized and said they would fix the problem.

    What exactly should they have done if not this? If your answer is that their search engine is inherently a flawed concept to begin with, then you are arguing a different issue.

    I don't see what this has to do with my rights online.

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    /syle

  3. different position! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd put him in a different position, for starters. Preferably one involving a plunger and some vaseline.