On Wednesday 26 Nov 2008, Mani A wrote:
[snip] You are looking at only one of the ways used by proprietary software companies. They expect to profit in various other ways. Most proprietary closed source software companies have big stakes in the organized crime industry too. The latter is apparently as advanced (if not more) as any other industry.
Er, would you have some data to back up that statement? If you mean organised crime is technically advanced, sure, I have no quarrel with that. But a sweeping statement that ties organised crime and proprietary software development companies is a bit too much to swallow.
Or have I wandered into the Let's Gratuitously Bash Corporates Mailing List by mistake?
BTW, most of the bot-control IRC servers controlled by organised crime on the 'net run on cracked Linux boxes. Some of them may even be running on Gnusense... makes you stop and think about the connection between FOSS and crime, huh? ;)
Regards,
-- Raju