Comments on: BSA’s Great Big Warning

By: yuga

yuga — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:25:49 +0000

@ Clair,

I guess the net cafe owners aren’t that choosy. As long as it can run the usual games, rock on.

By: Clair

Clair — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:02:46 +0000

Abe: Lindows? Bat naman Lindows… Ubuntu! *laughs* Kidding… I am biased towards Ubuntu obviously. (And Debian – of course!!!!)

By: yuga

yuga — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:03:53 +0000

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.

By: PreferedtobeAnonymous

PreferedtobeAnonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:27:32 +0000

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?

By: The Great LAN Shop RAID -- Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippine’s Premier Technology Blog

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:56:35 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: PreferedtobeAnonymous

PreferedtobeAnonymous — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:17:47 +0000

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!

By: Greg Moreno

Greg Moreno — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:01 +0000

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."

By: namewithhelduponrequest

namewithhelduponrequest — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:51:05 +0000

I knew one of the inter café operator is quite agitated by now, just thinking about imprisonment or million peso penalty. He was computing per pc license about PhP 8,500 (windows xp) and PhP 12,000 (ms office), he’s having 20 units therefore: (8,500 + 12,000) X 20 units = Php 410,000 …. He was wondering how could he raise this additional 410,000 considering his shop rental is 15 pesos per hour….. Don’t blame him coz he’s located at u-belt and the current running rental is only 15 pesos…… Trust me 100% of internet cafes are using unlicensed software… The question is, after Sept. 16, would all these more than hundred thousands internet café operators be fitted in JAIL ? funny…. Nyahahahahah.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:38:51 +0000

As long as software prices sold here are still based on western standards (and by golly, most of the time even more expensive), then Pinoys–who would rather spend their dwindling disposable incomes on more pressing needs–would still opt for pirated copies.

I agree with Bit that if legit copies were to be sold in the vicinity of PhP 500, then it would definitely be worth buying the real McCoy instead of the bootlegged copy.

By: bit

bit — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:35:25 +0000

While I do believe that companies can only push their prices down so far, they should still do their best to do so. Even if the price of pirated software stays at 100-150 per CD, if the legit copies were even at ~500, I’d think that it would attract at least some people away from piracy. When the price difference is in the thousands, you can’t help but wonder why these companies aren’t getting it.