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Imagine a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Imagine the devices that pirate GPL code being seized, and when the developers explain th

Imagine a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Imagine the devices that pirate GPL code being seized, and when the developers explain they received BSA training that said they did not have to live by the GPL, the assets of BSA member companies are seized on conspiracy charges (after a fair trial.) Imagine.

RobotToaster 3y ago
Birmingham Small Arms Company?
- AlexandrB 3y ago
  Business Software Alliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance
- komadori 3y ago
  Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-backed software licence enforcement outfit.
  - mavhc 3y ago
    Have they published a legal opinion on GPL?
    - hulitu 3y ago
      Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,"
      - ttfkam 3y ago
        Keep in mind that he said this 25-30 years ago when co-running a company whose business was dominating the computing landscape and in direct conflict with the Open Source upstarts. Also, the GPL was maybe 10 years old at that point? A lot has changed since then. There aren't many people who were correct in their predictions about the computer industry at large, the web, or the internet 30 years ago.
        SSLy 3y ago
        MSFT has not rescinded the statement ever since.
        ttfkam 3y ago
        They are one of the biggest corporate contributors to open source software in the world, both in money and in code contributions. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/microsoft-open-source-licensing-gplv3/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/micro... Actions speak louder than words. The Microsoft of 1996 is not the Microsoft of 2023.
        actionfromafar 3y ago
        The battle is no longer over the desktop, but over cloud and SAAS. Datacenters are back, clients (even "full desktops") are now thin clients again.
        loeg 3y ago
        2001 was only 22 years ago.
bragr 3y ago
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s0sa 3y ago
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- qingcharles 3y ago
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- tom_ 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...
- raverbashing 3y ago
  Maybe the secret to avoid pirating is adding hidden references to this and other 'sensitive' topics in the code
nuker 3y ago
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mistrial9 3y ago
are you saying that in the USA, a Microsoft-funded lawyer group is training people that the GPL does not have legal force edit in some conditions they declare? Do you have evidence of this? links?
gigel82 3y ago
BSA, now that's something I haven't heard in a while; '90s mIRC flashback...

RobotToaster 3y ago

Birmingham Small Arms Company?

AlexandrB 3y ago
Business Software Alliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance
komadori 3y ago
Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-backed software licence enforcement outfit.
- mavhc 3y ago
  Have they published a legal opinion on GPL?
  - hulitu 3y ago
    Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,"
    - ttfkam 3y ago
      Keep in mind that he said this 25-30 years ago when co-running a company whose business was dominating the computing landscape and in direct conflict with the Open Source upstarts. Also, the GPL was maybe 10 years old at that point? A lot has changed since then. There aren't many people who were correct in their predictions about the computer industry at large, the web, or the internet 30 years ago.
      - SSLy 3y ago
        MSFT has not rescinded the statement ever since.
        ttfkam 3y ago
        They are one of the biggest corporate contributors to open source software in the world, both in money and in code contributions. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/microsoft-open-source-licensing-gplv3/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/micro... Actions speak louder than words. The Microsoft of 1996 is not the Microsoft of 2023.
        actionfromafar 3y ago
        The battle is no longer over the desktop, but over cloud and SAAS. Datacenters are back, clients (even "full desktops") are now thin clients again.
      - loeg 3y ago
        2001 was only 22 years ago.

bragr 3y ago

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s0sa 3y ago

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qingcharles 3y ago
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tom_ 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...
raverbashing 3y ago
Maybe the secret to avoid pirating is adding hidden references to this and other 'sensitive' topics in the code

nuker 3y ago

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mistrial9 3y ago

are you saying that in the USA, a Microsoft-funded lawyer group is training people that the GPL does not have legal force edit in some conditions they declare? Do you have evidence of this? links?

gigel82 3y ago

BSA, now that's something I haven't heard in a while; '90s mIRC flashback...