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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ peterwn ] on Friday 01 September 2006 08:48 \__
>
>>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Fine unlicensed software users, says BSA
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Software industry lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has
>>> | called for government to mandate stiff penalties for companies using
>>> | unlicensed software.
>>> |
>>> | The organisation says it wants a "harder enforcement stick" to
>>> | ensure compliance.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/30/fine_software_pirates_says_bsa/
>>
>> This is a fine bit of pontification from a Microsoft dominated
>> organisation. Microsoft has been fined millions by the EU and yet
>> expects everyone else to abide by the rule of law.
>>
>> Perhaps marketing bug infested software should be a crime under British
>> law.
>
> The bugs hurt anyone who is a Web citizen, I might add. Regardless of
> software choices...
With respect to botnets and so on, as well as the wider implications of
monopoly abuse, they most certainly do, yes. All those non-standard
web-pages, for example, those windows-media streams, and so on.
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