Sinking the pirates
Anthony Fordham Nov 04 2003
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The solution for users is to buy only brand-named software from
reputable retailers, he says.
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The BSAA operates a hotline, and encourages Australians to dob in pirates.

McNamara says: "We're mostly interested in large-scale counterfeiting
and copying. If you dob in your next-door neighbour for having an
illegal copy of Windows XP, we're unlikely to do much more than send
them a letter explaining that what they're doing is illegal."
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"We expect product activation to have a continuing effect."

Symantec is so impressed with the effectiveness of product activation it
has begun using its own version of the system for its Norton 2004 software.
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BSAA piracy hotline: **** *** ***
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Meanwhile, the open-source community sits back laughing � its code is
meant to be copied and distributed.

The ideal of open source is to have lots of users making small
improvements and then sharing them.

Open source, however, has not reached a point where it has the full
functionality home users get from their Windows-compatible software.

In the meantime, companies depending on the Wintel behemoth to survive
are trying to make their code harder for the pirates to get hold of ...

http://snurl.com/2ti1
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7734537%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:07:26 -0500, Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote:

> Sinking the pirates
> Anthony Fordham Nov 04 2003

> Open source, however, has not reached a point where it has the full
> functionality home users get from their Windows-compatible software.
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> http://snurl.com/2ti1
> http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7734537%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
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pardon me?  I did not know there was something I was missing, excepting 
crashes, DLL conflicts, and viruses naturally.

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:07:26 -0500, Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote:

>Sinking the pirates
>Anthony Fordham Nov 04 2003
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>Open source, however, has not reached a point where it has the full
>functionality home users get from their Windows-compatible software.
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Just a few more Ernie Ball type busts and the motivation to leave
Windows will be that much greater.