Chambers wrote:
> On 5/10/2009 2:11 AM, scott wrote:
>>> The music industry has succeeded in creating a world where a 7yo girl
>>> downloading one piece of music from the internet is considered a bigger
>>> crime than a company using a piece of utility software illegally to make
>>> money.
>>
>> It's not the music industry's fault that the software industry does not
>> go after illegal software as vigorously. There's nothing stopping
>> Microsoft or similar other software giants trying to take the same route
>> as the music industry. I wonder why they don't?
> 
> Haven't you heard of the Business Software Alliance?  Basically the same
> thing for MS software, except they use more heavy handed strategy (ie,
> things like showing up at your business and threatening you if you don't
> let them inspect all your computers to verify you aren't stealing
> software).

Send 'em over to my ex-employer. There is only one legal copy of Windows in
the whole office and that's because it came with the laptop.

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