BSA Making More Noise
from the the-sky-is-falling,-the-sky-is-falling dept
It seems that the recent report on software piracy didn't attract enough attention for the BSA, so they're yelling about it again. It seems that just about every major technology news source has picked up on this story, and the only one to actually think about how silly the points made by the BSA are is (not surprisingly) the Register. Their article points out why the $11 billion number is completely made up and useless.
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"Lets not talk about the fact that BSA lied, that they are preaching FUD, lets just scream that everyone out there on the internet are ravenous criminals who would rather steal than buy, regardless to how responsible companies get about making their software reliable, affordable, and available." -- Anonymous Coward Lacky from Microsoft.
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