Open source slammed in US government sponsored meeting

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Last year, the US govt sponsored a meeting with Thai govt agency heads in Chiang Mai. In the meeting, the Microsoft rep “expressed concern over the [T
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True ei. they have the strong will to say all of this. Lets talk about products that lasts would do good?
since the start of Planned Obsolescence consumers are left helpless. when you have a complaint they are going to make it difficult. consumers controlled.

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From the article:
“and said Microsoft was “very
pleased” that Thailand’s software piracy rate has decreased by two percent a year since 2006.”

First, how do they measure such a thing?

Second, at this rate it will be another 45 years before they stamp out piracy completely.

How is this credible?

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I don’t know what they are talking about, ever since I switched to Linux I stopped pirating software.

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The title there is a bit misleading. It should say, “Predictably, commercial software reps try to con the Thai government into thinking that open source software is somehow bad for everyone.” It’s not. It’s just bad for the schmucks who want to preserve their profit margin. It’s also silly of these commercial profiteers to suggest that embracing open source doesn’t have a positive impact on piracy. For pete’s sake, do these profiteers think we’re easily confused children? Software piracy in Thailand is popular only because the public doesn’t know that open source is free, legal, and almost as easy to use as massively expensive programs like MS Office, Windows, and Adobe Photoshop.

Let’s not honor those propagandists FUDpackers by repeating their silly words without pointing out how patently silly their talking points are.

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Deplorable!

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