Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yusseri Yusoff wrote:

> Looking at reports like the one in In.Tech today (and the link in the original 
> post) more often than not leaves me somewhat despondent. We're trying to 
> eradicate piracy 

Here seems the core of interest. Are we; really ? Are the proprietary 
chaps *really* pursuing the offenders ?

Me doubts. Both.

Firstly, the society is still one based on consensus; not on 
confrontation. What if enforcement leaves some people disadvantaged ?

On the other side as well: I tend to get sick of those reports of 
'losses' by BSA & Co. There is no single sen of actual loss experienced 
by them; maximally not realised income potential.
Plus, if they really wanted to enforce, they could. But then they'd 
drive hordes into 'our' arms; whichever license; whichever flavour. We 
wouldn't have to try all the work to convince, that Imran mentioned.
They are aware of this, and will only enforce gradually, specific cases. 
They rather have full compliance over twenty years, when - hopefully for 
them - no competitor has survived .NET, AVALON, European (and US) 
Patents, DMCA, Palladium, etc.
Dadah - these dealers can provide the drugs almost forever without any 
cost incurred, until the world is ripe to be milked (i.e. you need that 
software like water and air).

Me thinks, that this is the current situation: not much of an 
enforcement, at least no sweeping enforcement.
Like the VCD-thingy. Each Tuesday night, there are some twenty stalls on 
'our' Pasar Malam. When the officers arrive in their cars, the trays are 
removed by the dealers, the officers remain seated and observe the empty 
stalls (lights still burning; '3 VCD RM 10' still visible) for some time 
and drive on; the dealers carrying back the trays to the stalls. And 
this repeats a few times per night.

This is exactly the kind of enforcement we might expect for the new Ops 
whatsoever: Making it a bit more difficult; getting some governmental 
organisation to legalise (using government money), bringing down the 
piracy rate to a level below the intervention threshold of WTO. And then 
business as usual.

Uwe


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