piracy and oss

[Marcel Kunath]

Well I started this thread and make my closing remarks. Even though there is
lots of things to consider here I still believe all are miniscule compared to
the economic / financial example I had given and unless I have totally
overlooked something in my calculation or I am not taking enough things into
account I am pretty certain piracy lowers the market value of proprieytory
software to a value of free software and hence chokes of demand for free
software. (market value as in us dollar cost)

mk

> > > >I wonder if there
is a way for the community to > >report pirates but not look like the devil in
> >disguise and if we should do anything at all.
>
>
> I Think Microsoft and other proprietary software vendors are doing just fine
> ferret-ing out 'pirates' (RMS strongly discourages the use of that word...
> and I agree, hence the quotes).  Let them do their own dirty work, and
> they'll come out looking like the devil.
>
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