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<DIV>"The Business Software Alliance, a software industry lobbying group,
estimates that 24 percent of all software in the U.S. is pirated, amounting to a
loss of $2.6 billion in 2000."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The BSA must not have access to college dorms,
otherwise they'd have to up those figures quite a bit :).
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Eric Hattemer</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jeffm@lava.net href="mailto:jeffm@lava.net">Jeff Mings</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=luau@list.luau.hi.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 22, 2001 10:36
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [luau] Surprising
harassment</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Cyberclops, who I believe to be be in Colorado, sent me an
article about heavy-handed legal bullying by Microsoft at<BR><BR><A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2779270,00.html">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2779270,00.html</A>
. I'm surprised at this kind of harassment, even from Microsoft.
Still, it does point to compelling reasons for businesses to turn to
open source.<BR><BR>-Jeff Mings<BR>
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