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Story: BSA secret agenda: open source saves the worldTotal Replies: 3
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nikkels

Sep 12, 2011
9:29 PM EDT 		If you have problems finding a job, go and work for the BSA. No brains needed, IQ of 65 accepted and if you can talk BS, that will be a recommendation.
dinotrac

Sep 12, 2011
10:59 PM EDT 		Whoa! Sounds tailor-made for me!
cr

Sep 13, 2011
8:31 AM EDT 		Do ya think Badon-Powell dun it this way? Think of the merit badges...
vainrveenr

Sep 13, 2011
11:56 AM EDT 		Goodwins writes:
Quoting:A logical conclusion of the BSA's arguments is that the free and open source software (Foss) model would step in to provide legal alternatives. Of course, for some software such as Adobe's top-end creative products there is no Foss equivalent; the paid-for market is small enough and the lock-in so significant that there's not been much point.

Once the world cannot get what it cannot pay for, though, the motivation to make top-notch Foss products will be much higher, and we can reasonably expect them to appear. Indeed, we can expect the new wave of software to become so good that it will be functionally competitive with the full-price Western option - and competition, as we all know, promotes a healthy, honest market. Something we know the BSA is entirely in favour of.
Clearly this is fairly sarcastic.

OTOH, one can be fairly certain IF the BSA Survey is indeed myopically focusing upon the theft of proprietary software, that large companies actually producing and selling such "stolen non-Foss products" have sufficient alternative methods at their disposal to subvert the aims that the survey calls for.

Just what ARE the aims of the BSA Survey?
Quoting:... the need for industry and governments to redouble their public-education efforts and send stronger deterrent signals to the marketplace with vigorous enforcement of IP laws.
(from http://blog.bsa.org/2011/09/07/inside-a-59-billion-heist-the-contradictory-opinions-and-behaviors-of-the-worlds-software-pirates-2/ )

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Perhaps a new term can be coined in this regard called the Total Cost of Enforcement (TCE).

To staunch the "$59 billion dollar heist", TCE might include (among other costs):

- The cost to Western governments and to companies' legal teams of drafting effective and comprehensive International anti-piracy legislation.

- The cost primarily borne by the large Western companies themselves to better detect the transfer and use of their pirated software.

- The cost shared between large Western companies and nations where "unacceptable" piracy occurs, to most effectively punish and/or disrupt the pirated software's chain-of-supply, e.g., the pirates stealing the software in the first place, the various traders/middlemen involved in distribution to end-users, and the perhaps not-so-innocent end-users themselves

- The cost primarily borne by large Western companies of providing "acceptable" software that CAN reach new and expanding markets. This could mean large Western companies "allowing" in a greater amount of pirated software, just sufficient enough for improved market share ("lock in") within their target countries. This could also mean taking the draconian steps of drastically lowering the cost of their software in the face of the successes of competitive software such as F/OSS and/or their failure to enforce the anti-piracy measures mentioned above.

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