--- In [email protected], "Darklord (:=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://bdosn.org/news_snaps/Software%20Piracy%20and%20Bangladesh.pdf
I was able to make some sense of the WTO information from this article. Thanks. My personal thoughts in this topic, in short: 1. Piracy == stealing. We must forbid piracy. 2. Adhering to (1) will make us do cost benefit analysis. 3. (2) will lead to the realization of the prohibitive cost of mainstream proprietary OS, Office and Multimedia apps. 4. (3) will lead to people seeking alternatives. FOSS would be the best candidate. Other path of benefit could be after (3): (4) Proprietary software companies, seeing the risk of loosing market share (its not only the sell they loose, the skillset and the trend of using their software is lost too) will come ahead with discounted price. (Chinese students can get MS Office for $2. In Aus, every now and then MS Office is availabe for $60 for academis etc) Either way, I can see a win for the users. But it's all based on that you accept (1) as the base. If you are selling somehting which you have produced from your work/effort, me being poor no way gives me the right to steal it from you. But then again, if we have managed to do so with arrangement with WTO, it is never to soon to come out of the "begger" status. -- Soyuz > > Zico wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Shahidul Shuvra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2008/5/23 > > Subject: [bdresearchers] Cracking Down on Pirated Software users > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Dear Group Members & My Readers, > > > > Immediate after joining US embassy at Dhaka as an ambassador James F > > Moriarty wrote an article in favor of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). My > > readers might see the articles published in English and Bangla daily > > newspapers. He wrote about Mustafa Jabbar and Tareque Masud as if he is a > > great user of Bijoy software and genuine fan of Tareque Masud's films. > > > > He is gravely concerned on our domestic Intellectual Property Rights > > Violations. He did not write any thing about piracy of international > > software and CDs. He knows well the voice against international software > > piracy will be rose when piracy of domestic hi-tech products will be ended. > > This is the software diplomacy to say against domestic software piracy to > > rise voice against international software piracy like Microsoft's products. > > It will not be hard for you to understand ending software piracy in > > Bangladesh is his one of the missions. > > > > Already letters from Copy Right Register's office were sent to some offices > > to remove pirated software and to install licensed software. Our government > > has been pressurized by donors, multinational companies, local companies and > > diplomats to start cracking down on pirated software users. Especially > > Microsoft is seeking way to recover their funded charity money from > > Bangladesh by businesses. Once free of cost Microsoft offered training to > > some government offices to build good relation. Few months back they trained > > SSF on information security. Already they established well connection among > > government offices and security departments. So this connection and well > > relation with authority will be used for raiding pirated software users. > > > > Soon taskforce will raid deferent offices with the people of Copy Right > > offices to arrest pirated software users, book and movie sellers. Another > > thing is that an office with international staffs will be launched here to > > monitor software piracy. So it is alarming for those people who use pirated > > software and pirated books for learning computer science. I do not want to > > include CDs of movies and songs with this issue because sudden banning > > pirated software may hamper our computer education and development > > activities. > > > > I am not great friend of pirated books, CDs and software; but I see the > > issue with critical eyes. This issue is complicated and thus we should foil > > any conspiracy to impose ban on pirated software hurriedly and without plan. > > Last year maliciously a group of people try to band us world fourth pirated > > software user. I am attaching the main report from US with this letter where > > you will find some of people exaggerated about Bangladesh. In fact, > > Bangladesh did no get remarkable place in the report. According to WTO we > > have option to develop ourselves by copying software till 2013 and we can > > also replicate pharmaceutical products till 2016. > > > > Our government should make a good policy and plan along with corporate > > houses, donors, businessmen etc for ending the pirated software installing. > > Our copy right office is full of inefficient people and so they are not > > competent enough to deal the complicated issue. > > > > I have more to write, but want to write after my readers' feedbacks. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Shahidul K K Shuvra > > > > The Independent, Editorial Department > > > > Editor of IT and Science pages > > > > Cell- 01715245459 > > > > 8911919 (res) > > > > > > > > > > > > >
