[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“Rich American corporations have slight trouble with managing
all the licensing, but they can work it out at the end. But poor
Indian enterprises cannot. India is rich in talent (human
talents) but poor in talents (the ancient currency of India; in
other words: money). India, and many other third world countries,
have ample resources of brains – brilliant software developers –
but poor means of paying for the licensing of software.“
“India’s saving grace was once prohibited copying. It wasn’t a
solution, of course, what with the US software houses demanding
their money and all that. The present saving grace of India is now
free software. Indian software developers are bullish on Linux. No
licensing quagmires! Open sources! Nirvana for the Indian software
developer! If there’s a needed example of how GNU/Linux benefits
mankind, it is in the Indian software scene. Linux in India crushes
Microsoft to pulp.”
“The BSA doesn’t care. It demands the money. For them, it
doesn’t matter that, as Leonard Cohen sings, “the poor stay poor,
the rich get rich”. Not noble even in the USA, downright shameful
crime in poor countries.”