On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel < linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Criminals can’t compete with free. The study finds no systematic links > between media piracy and >organized crime or terrorism in any of the > countries examined. Today, commercial pirates and >transnational smugglers > face the same dilemma as the legal industry: how to compete with free. > > This worry me. Free and OSS have two front to compete with. Legal and > pirates will find ways that can be used against. > OSS has some very strong benefits over legally licensed software. The way I see it, our only difficulty in this "competition" is how to make people aware of the benefits effectively, and without the aid of a marketing department. I'm more worried about illegally copied software. Even with the clearly documented benefits of OSS, it's hard to convince people to change the software they've been using for years when the price is free and there's no penalty for the illegal copy. Luckily, the big software companies are fighting this battle for us. As they continue to make security mistakes and push harder on copyright law enforcement, it becomes more likely that people will consider alternatives. Sabar je lah! :) We don't even really need to think of this as a competition because our community isn't a corporation that needs to make a profit each quarter. Just continue to be awesome, like we already are, and make the software available to people when they're ready... it'll just happen. Legal will used patent as ways to gain more profit from any software > including OSS. > I didn't quite understand this line. If you meant that proprietary software companies will use patents and copyright laws to get more profit than they deserve from their own software and OSS software, I think you're right. This worries me, too. We can defend ourselves by being wary of the FUD and supporting organizations that work to defend our rights like EFF. > Pirate will use harmful ways to give bad name to any software. Example > day 0 exploit. > Are you talking about a "Zero-day attack" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack )? What does that have to do with piracy, OSS, or even proprietary software? Theoretically, this kind of exploit will affect any type of software project, free or otherwise, equally. However, OSS generally has a shorter turn-around for bug fixes and a community with greater awareness than that of proprietary software, so this kind of exploit actually works in our favor. It's one of our advantages over proprietary software. -- Ghodmode http://www.ghodmode.com/blog On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Haris bin Ali <ha...@qedx.com> wrote: > > I figured this might be of interest: > > > > Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale > > study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a > focus > > on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011
