My Software Is Being Pirated

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codinghorror.com - 12/27/2008

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If you're at all familiar with computer history, you might have heard of Bill Gates' famous 1976 letter to the Homebrew Computer Club . The letter was written to address rampant piracy of Bill's earliest product, Altair BASIC , which was being passed around quite freely by hobbyists in paper ...

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The Myth of the Open Source Business Model
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... This morning, Jeff Atwood wrote a blog post about software piracy entitled My Software Is Being Pirated where he talks about how companies can deal with the fact that the piracy rate among their users could be as high as 90%. He writes ...

The Twisted Logic of Dogma
TomsTechBlog.com — Jeff Atwood catches an interesting connection. He quotes a blog comment from one of the developers of 2D Boy's World of Goo. In it the developer says their software is pirated by about 90% of users which Mr. Atwood connects to a 1976 post by Bill Gates where Gates quotes the same 90% piracy rate for Altair Basic. The lesson being that not much has changed. Mr. Atwood elaborates... The crushing piracy rate is especially painful in this case because World of Goo was handcrafted by a tiny 2 man independent programming shop. ...

Linkpost | 12.28.2008
TechBlog — ... - T-Mobile may send G1 owners a new battery to compensate for the phone's poor staying power. • My Software Is Being Pirated - How about a 90 percent piracy rate? Whoa. • ...

Well cry me a river – people are pirating stuff
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Jeff Atwood had a great post the other day about the pirating of software and as much as I would like to say that there was anything new that will come out of it – well – there won’t. Of course the entertainment industry loves to point to the people doing the pirating as the bad guys and RIAA has made themselves the jackboot squad of the Internet age with their sue the fucker’s into oblivion attitude; and we can see how well that has worked out for them. ...