--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > From: Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> --- mehul wrote:
>
> Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> >> what is software piracy?
>
> > Something that MS doesn't care of?
>
> Or possibly MS doesn't stretch its resources and
> money
> into going against it to the maximum or with highest
> priority. I hear, that's because, they want
> popularity, at cost some some losses. :-?
What MS wants or focuses its budget towards is not the
issue, and going down that road is not worth the
discussion.
Software is the set of rules that determines the
utility of a piece of hardware, or many pieces of
hardware when they (by the excellence of their
software) work together. When that software is
concealed, or the developer chooses to ignore the
needs of different hardware users and prevents them
from enjoying the same features, benefits etc,
everyone loses, not just the users of that hardware.
Piracy is an artefact of a select section of society.
This was true when the term piracy was applied to
sea-going merchants, who were licensed by their
governments to kill and plunder everyone else, and is
no less true today, when a group of 13 countries some
120 years ago (led by global supernation Haiti, in
case you mistakenly thought this was all about
superpowers) signed an agreement that is even today
still being debated (the ink just won't dry).
MS has chosen to work in the world of proprietary
software, and this is a business decision of theirs.
They are clinging to it, long after bigger or more
impactful IT companies like IBM and Intel have seen
the value of building businesses that do not pivot on
the proprietary software spike. If they choose to move
away from this stance, it will not affect the
essential value of 'open' or 'free' software (just
tags or jargon that have no more intrinsic value than
the word 'proprietary').
Vickram
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