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19 September 2013
BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage
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I love the spring. Not, of course, because of the glorious weather, since we don't have any. But because it's time for the annu...
10 June 2012
BSA Piracy Study: Mere Shadow Boxing?
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So, once again, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has come out with its annual report on software piracy around the world, entitled &q...
18 April 2012
BSA Wants Business Software Licences To Be Checked in VAT Audits
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In my last post, I wrote about my Freedom of Information request to find out how Microsoft had been lobbying against true open standards...
04 March 2011
More Fun with Anti-Open Source FUD
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One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by ...
18 January 2011
Of China, Piracy and Open Source
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A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...
20 October 2010
A (Final) Few Words on FRAND Licensing
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The issue of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing has cropped up quite a few times in these pages. The last time I wrot...
11 October 2010
Whatever the BSA Says, FRAND is no Friend of Europe
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I see that my old mates the Business Software Alliance are a tad concerned that the European Commission might do something sensible with the...
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27 September 2010
Double Standards on Open Standards
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Last week I went along to the grandly-named Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on Open source software: in business, in government. The good...
17 September 2010
BSA's Piracy Numbers: Less than They Seem
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You can argue all you want with words, which are vague and fuzzy, but numbers have hard edges: numbers are facts. Except, of course, they a...
02 July 2008
Defending Openness in the European Union
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In Open Enterprise blog .
14 February 2007
Patently Foolish
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Oh, here's a good idea : let patent experts help decide whether or not to grant lots more patents. And if you need proof this is not g...
23 May 2006
More "Piracy" Poppycock
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The Business Software Alliance has published another of its misleading propaganda efforts directed against the threat of so-called "pi...
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