Comment Re:Omissions (Score 1) 240
I wrote the article, and I'm sorry if it gave you that impression. There was a certain amount about the goodness and importance of software copyright which got squeezed for space reasons. The specific phrase I missed was that copyright and patent are the good and bad cholesterol of software IP.
I don't now know whether most pirtate copies of software are converted into legitimate ones, but it has been said often enough about the way software spread in the Nineties tht it seems reasonable, and that was the perod I thought of. Certainly, pirate copies of MS office are a huge bar the spread of openoffice, as pirate copies of windows must be to Linux. They cost no more money and much less time.
I don't now know whether most pirtate copies of software are converted into legitimate ones, but it has been said often enough about the way software spread in the Nineties tht it seems reasonable, and that was the perod I thought of. Certainly, pirate copies of MS office are a huge bar the spread of openoffice, as pirate copies of windows must be to Linux. They cost no more money and much less time.
