UK Government Confiscates Firefox CDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 23, 2006 @02:39AM from the can't-just-give-it-away dept.

Alsee writes "The idea that Free Software can be sold has some government officials perplexed. Times Online has the story. A UK Trading Standards officer contacted the Mozilla Foundation to report catching a business selling copies of Firefox. The organization confiscated the CDs with the intent to prosecute said business. When informed that such distribution was authorized, the officer first expressed disbelief that Free Software could be sold then said 'If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation'."

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All the more reason... by perigee369 · 2006-02-23 02:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

All the more reason why all this anti-piracy witchhunt should be banished... Governments need to realize that they need to do as the majority wants, not what a select group of rich companies want... My $0.02 worth.