bersl2's Journal: Really funny ad

Only on Slashdot (exaggeration?) would one see an ad like this.

Really late add: Tom's Hardware had this link somewhere in it (broken apparently): Illegal Software? Report Software Piracy Today!

Microsoft

[betelgeuse-4]

I never get why Slashdot has Microsoft ads saying Windows is better than Linux. I suppose it means we can move a little money from Microsoft to /. by clicking it. Mind you, a combination of Firefox's Image blocking and Flash click to view means I never see the ads anyway.

Re:Microsoft

[rock_climbing_guy]

I didn't know that "click to view" was an option with Flash? How do you set it up that way? I use Mozilla, but I imagine it would be similiar to how it's done with Firefox, right?

Re:Microsoft

[bersl2]

It's a Firefox extension: Flashblock [texturizer.net]

Targeted Advertising

[Elpacoloco]

I remember when I searched google for "Gnutella," I got like five or six ads from the RIAA about "MP3 Downloading is SATANIC BABY EATING EVIL!!!!"

Uh huh, yeah, clearly that's what you want the people who are interested in gettin gnutella to believe.

So yeah, apparently the BSA believes that slashdot readers are a bunch of software pirates.

When I see those ads...

[kasperd]

...I always consider what kind of software piracy I should report. Perhaps I should report some of those cases where GPL software is illegally copied without source code.

Now come on, AC...

[bersl2]

Can't we give him the benefit of the doubt? I mean, if you s/copied/distributed/ it is perfectly correct. He's talking about all those companies who use GPL'ed stuff but don't release the sources or even acknowledge the use thereof.
And even if you are right, he still is better than 99% of the people out there. At least he recognizes that the sharing of code is the essence of the GPL (from a non-Stallman perspective, that is).

Re:When I see those ads...

[kasperd]

Its not illegal to copy GPL software without the source code you idiot.
I never said it was always illegal to copy GPL software. I just said I wanted to report those incidents, where that actually was the case.

You obviously are a Windows only user that simply doesn't "get" what the GPL is.
Wrong again. I use Linux exclusively on my computers. I even contributed with a bit of kernel code. And I have read all of the GPL - more than once.

You can copy and use any GPL software, all you want, and make all t

Re:When I see those ads...

[bersl2]

Once again, AC loses.

Who'd have thought that?

Speak up or pack up?

[alib001]

Pardon?

So the advert seems to threaten that I must 'speak up' (to whom? the BSA?) or 'pack up' (pack what? clear my desk? tell the company to fold?). Hypothetically speaking, if I worked in a company that used pirated s/w (I don't) why would I want them to incur a nasty fine, potentially losing my job to boot?

Um thanks, but I think I'll pass.

If a company uses software that should be paid for then let them pay for it or seek out the legal, better alternatives out there.

Maybe I'm supposed to take the flas

My favourite ad of all time...

[DeeKayWon]

I ran into this ad [usask.ca] about five years ago. I saved a copy for posterity, and for discussions like this.

Re:My favourite ad of all time...

[bersl2]

Hmm... the first thing I "noticed" about that ad is that the light in the middle looks like a deformed, pointed cartoon penis.

Yeah. And then I noticed "loose."

Oh, I needed much more sleep last night than I got...