BSA’s Great Big Warning
Posted Monday, September 12th, 2005 11:35 am by Abe Olandres
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA Philippines) is running a campaign aptly called the Oplan Crackdown.
They’re send out a huge poster on this:
All businesses engaged in the use and distribution of illegal software are warned — you have 30 days to legalize your unlicensed software and to stop selling pirated sofware.
They’re pushing the red button too early:
Starting September 16, the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy team will begin a series of raids against companies that continue to use, self-distribute unlicensed software. Those found guilty of violating the Intellectual Property Code or the Optical Media Act may face imprisonment up to 9 years.
But they’ve been doing raids for as long as I can remember that there exist a BSA.
Funny. It’s like a police car with the siren blaring on and trying apprehend a burglary-in-action. Or maybe, this is just a pretty neat marketing campaign. Besides, doing raids and filing cases would be yet another waste of corporate moolah for these software vendors, right?
Why not give these software pirates the last chance to get software licenses (and cash in on the converts)? It’s a win-lose proposition as against a lose-lose agenda.
Ok, let’s go FOSS.
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@ Clair,
I guess the net cafe owners aren’t that choosy. As long as it can run the usual games, rock on.
Abe: Lindows? Bat naman Lindows… Ubuntu! *laughs* Kidding… I am biased towards Ubuntu obviously. (And Debian - of course!!!!)
A friend of mine in Laguna told me that a lot of cafe owners in their vicity have temporarily closed shop due to this.
A popular alternative for their OS is Lindows.
There are no sign of NBI, PNGA, BSA or any raid here in our area. Where do you guys think they start? Is any one of us hit yet?
I’ve read lot of forums and emails. Some says, they get busted bcoz of Counterstrike and Warcraft but noone says anything about microsoft product, adobe or macromedia. What do you guys think?
[...] After the BSA’s Great Big Warning, the crackdowns have started. LAN shops and Internet cafes are the most affected since their PCs are exposed. Switching to Linux is not too easy since much of their revenue comes from games specific to Windows. [...]
Sept. 16, is a tommorrow never dies day. Good luck guys, I haven’t had a sleep for 2 1/2 days from now. I’m thinking switching to different OS, just not microsoft. Try this link guys, it help us. http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com
I’m getting ready for today, i’ll watch the news and the streets. GOD BLESS PILIPINAS!
Dear BSA,
Why not have a chat with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
“Piracy is a good thing so long as the pirates are folks who could never afford your products.”
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