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To: Mike Bates
with losses from unauthorized software increasing by $4 billion from 2003

A lie. That assumes that every copied piece of software replaced what otherwise would have been a paid-for, licensed version, which is just crap. Ninety percent of these people would have just switched to Linux software or something if the Software Cops suddenly came after them.

12 posted on 05/18/2005 11:14:28 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War (Tagline censored - no pro-WPPFF taglines allowed)
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To: Dont Mention the War
That assumes that every copied piece of software replaced what otherwise would have been a paid-for, licensed version, which is just crap.

Exactly. Do they think that we are so stupid to believe it? Or are they so stupid themselves?

58 posted on 05/19/2005 5:45:50 AM PDT by A. Pole (Heraclitus: "Nothing endures but change.")
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