http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/10/1715243.shtml?tid=51 Free Software advocates have a terrific advantage in encouraging EULA compliance. Not only can we encourage our friends and colleagues to put their money where their mouth is by paying the exorbitant license fees to use the inferior software and be prohibited from making necessary backup copies, but we can also provide services to companies who are in danger of being audited by the BSA, helping them to easily convert to Free Software solutions, provide training, and save them thousands of dollars in fees paid to the BSA in the process.
We should encourage people and corporations to follow restrictive licenses of proprietary software precisely. Not only will this give Free Software a boost in users, but it will give Free Software creators credibility when they require strict adhesion to the GPL. As long as users and corporations can justify and rationalize using proprietary software without paying for it and ignoring the End User License Agreements, Free Software loses its primary selling points: Freedom. (read more in the article)
