[luau] News - Free Software Inflates BSA's Piracy Claims

[Warren Togami]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html
A flaw in the way annual software usage statistics are compiled may have led
to legal distribution of open-source programs being lumped with illegal
trafficking in desktop applications, inflating losses to industry through
"phantom" piracy.

The annual software piracy statistics - published by trade groups the US
Business Software Association (BSA) and Business Software Association of
Australia (BSAA) - are compiled from several sources but none take into
account the growing use of open-source desktop applications.

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