Piracy may be bad for huge coporations ( but as someone suggested, most of it is never used except as a proof that kiddie#1 is way more 31337 than kiddie#2 ), but doesn't it have a worst effect for the smaller competition ?
Many ppls i know use pirated software(mostly os and graphic software) because the said soft is widely used and cheap ( therefore over-evaluated, many things become attractive when they are free -let's say a beer-), one noticeable consequence being that they never ever take the time to evaluate other solutions (smaller buisness,open source etc...).
So, piracy may in fact have a worst effect on oss and the competition than on the big buisness.
Therefore, stoping piracy may very well help the little guy way more than the big buisness as people will ihmo start to evaluate the other solutions as well when they where blindly pirating the most known prog.
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Piracy may be bad for huge coporations ( but as someone suggested, most of it is never used except as a proof that kiddie#1 is way more 31337 than kiddie#2 ), but doesn't it have a worst effect for the smaller competition ?
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Many ppls i know use pirated software(mostly os and graphic software) because the said soft is widely used and cheap ( therefore over-evaluated, many things become attractive when they are free -let's say a beer-), one noticeable consequence being that they never ever take the time to evaluate other solutions (smaller buisness,open source etc...).
So, piracy may in fact have a worst effect on oss and the competition than on the big buisness.
Therefore, stoping piracy may very well help the little guy way more than the big buisness as people will ihmo start to evaluate the other solutions as well when they where blindly pirating the most known prog.
my 2 cents