Adobe Logic
(updated: April 6th, 9th) We’ve argued at some length that piracy is part of the software business model in developing countries because, as Microsoft exec Jeff Raikes put it, In the long run the...
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The Software Enforcement Dance
As Bradford Smith, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, characterized it in 2001: “By the late 1980s every single company abandoned that approach [copy protection] for the simple reason that...
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Overinstaller Awareness Day
Among other things, today is BSA Day–the day on which the Business Software Alliance releases its annual Global Software Piracy Study. This year, like every year, the release involves pronouncements...
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Learning from LiMux
The LiMux project–Linux in Munich–is approaching the finish line. LiMux was the largest municipal open-source adoption project in the world when it began in 2003, and was widely viewed as a test case...
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