Software Piracy

[Randall Hofland]

There is an interesting article that only briefly discusses the issue of software piracy at

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/06/07/000607hnwashington.xml?0608tham If nothing else, those that currently profit

I have to wonder if such concerns will ever apply to the thievery of open sourced code for proprietary distributions (such as MacroShaft's misappropriation and misuse of Kerbols and other unknown source code)? I have to believe that the Digital Milennium and UTICA legislation will eventually result in the inadvertant suicide of closed and proprietary software. If nothing else those that currently profit from the tremendous growth of our modern technologies have new and interesting ways to spend more of our tax dollars!