On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:35 pm, thad lozada wrote: > > Enforcement activities will commence at the end of the truce period, on > > 1st May 2002. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) with support > > and assistance from BSA will conduct search and seizure operations > > against companies who continue to use unlicensed software after the > > truce period isover.
> wow its like throwing the book in a nazi passion! Think twice, how often the BSA announced already a raid? They cleaned up 2-3 stores, as a coincident in some way competitors to those selling M$ software. Every year we had all these announcements, rumors, some BSA raid. Eventually some even bought the software. BSA a paper tiger, not for those 2-3 which got caught, but for those millions which didn't. And if you think about it, would Micro$oft really be interested? No question, the result that more user moving to Linux, which welcome by us, but for Micro$oft the worst which ever could happen and something which absolute to be prevented. It may look like a good argument and opportunity to increase the Linux population. The truth, that you can't convince user with that paper tiger, unless there had been "real" action, which very unlikely. What is our target? We want the user to use Linux because it is the better OS and not because some paper tiger happens to be roaring again. Mike _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
