On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:26, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:41 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
In a batch of 120 BMS students 119 had pirated doze + Adobe + Corel + video tools + rippers. All are of course cluless about the politics of computing technology. But clued in about IPR, copyrights and patents. They have these three as part of the syllabus. They wont bat an eyelid while pirating and give a sh** about it when pointed out that they are die hard M$ fans and should be paying their hero. The whole college merrily uses all pirated stuff. The Computer dept head is a M$ zombie, does not care either.
Call the cops on 'em. Lets have some fun :) Microsoft has an anti-piracy cell which 'helps' such institutions who were 'duped' into using pirated software :)
YA. And i make money - 10% of the retail. Irrespective of the actual price charged. Whats even better ALL machines on the premises will be billed. You devil you have taken control of my mind ;-E.
I know of many such organisations.
However there is a downside too. Every zombie makes life more difficult for FOSS. I have refrained from doing this, but the LUCRE is getting way too tempting.