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Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition?

Posted by simoniker on from the minus-the-piracy-bit dept.

fr0z writes " Ernie Ball is a company that makes guitar strings. After being raided by the BSA in 2000 without warning and fined $100,000 for a few unlicensed copies of software, CEO Sterling Ball vowed not to give another cent to Microsoft and within 6 months, according to CNET News, had the whole company switched to Red Hat Linux, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and other free software."

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  1. Fined? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    by who? the BSA are not a law enforcement agency. they have no more rights to sue someone for software piracy than i do.

  2. Re:Bass strings too! by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lately I've been playing Thomastik-Infeld's on my two basses. The powerbass (roundwound, great for slap, and plenty of bottom too, plus they last forever) on my P-Bass and Jazz Flats on my 6-string fretless. Those are amazing strings. Almost as bright as roundwounds, but again, last forever and don't chew up the fingerboard. They're made in Austria, and I doubt you'd find in 'em in stores in the US. I get mine from juststrings.com

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  3. Re:What BSA Raids accomplish by Baron_Yam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I post on Slashdot. Why on Earth would that lead you to believe I'd ever RTFA?

    Besides, 99.9% of the time it's already Slashdotted straight to hell and not worth the effort of clicking on the link.