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To: justlurking
In other words, the "restitution" imposed on this guy is indefensible.

Indefensible, perhaps, to people who are accustomed to getting software for free.
269 posted on 08/21/2003 11:03:54 PM PDT by Bush2000
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To: Bush2000
Indefensible, perhaps, to people who are accustomed to getting software for free.

Since I have a mixture of both open-source software (some of which I actually paid for, to support the development effort) and traditional proprietary software (for which I do have the licenses -- I keep them in a safe place), I'm not one of those people.

But, let's do the math: a few dozen applications, we'll call it 36. Divide that into $100K, and you get approximately $3k per infringing application. There are a few software products that exceed that price, but the list of vendors in the list you provided don't appear to fit that criteria (unless it was enterprise software from Microsoft).

So I'll ask again. How is that fair restitution?

279 posted on 08/21/2003 11:23:00 PM PDT by justlurking
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