[Newsbot]

Title: Canada lowers software piracy; world rate rises
Category: Tech
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2011-05-15 13:26:53
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

I'm shocked. From the land of RCMP Constable Benton Frazer Canadians are making use of cracked software; Totally unheard of.

[GreenTiger]

It must be the American Influence.

[raydan]

Where I worked for the network admin was Russian.
Everything piece of software we had was cracked.

[GreenTiger]

I worked for a place like that too. When we actually paid for some software we were using it was almost confusing.

[BartSimpson]

It's pretty impressive how many government agencies are knowingly pirating software - typically by exceeding their licensing on many programs like Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office.

[Scape]

Here is an article from 2003

It shows Microsoft was in talks then with the Irish government to provide source code because the government was looking at (gasp) Linux. Open sourced, under a creative commons license and distributed via cloud based marketing is how software will be sold. The old habits of expecting a market to pay for only one way of doing things is shattered. Servers are running on Linux over windows software have a much longer up time because the open source code undergoes a much more thorough testing phase and ideas like manditory DRM are being pushed to the ash bin of history because they abuse the client and reward the people who won't work with the flawed process to begin with.



That is not an effective marketing strategy. That's fleecing. Piracy is the natural reaction to that.

[BigKeithO]

The BSA numbers are a joke, this study is very biased.