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> Second, it hardly seems "anti-business" to require everyone (businesses included) to comply with the license agreements of the software they use. I'm old eno
by Lazare 11y ago
> Second, it hardly seems "anti-business" to require everyone (businesses included) to comply with the license agreements of the software they use.
I'm old enough to remember when following license agreements was pro-business. Has anyone told the BSA yet?
- egroat 11y agoFor those of us not quite so old, who are the BSA? I presume you don't mean the Birmingham Small Arms Company
- icelancer 11y agoLikely the Software Alliance. http://www.bsa.org/about-bsa http://www.bsa.org/about-bsa
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- Lazare 11y agoLike Icelancer said, the Business Software Alliance (although apparently they've dropped the "Business" part of the name). Back in the day, they tried to be the RIAA/MPAA of the business software industry; somewhat infamously they ran campaigns urging employees to "bust their boss" by turning the company they work for in for using unlicensed software, and ran cringe-worthy PSAs about the evils of piracy. A relic of the days when Microsoft was powerful and evil, Apple was for hippies, and clouds were things in the sky. Seemed kind of scary back then though. :) Wikipedia has some juicy details (cash bounties, hounding third world countries, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance)