“Australia’s Open Source industry body OSIA has said alternative
solutions based on open source software can help governments and
corporates halt illegal copying of software, according to a media
release from the body.“A Business Software Alliance (BSA) survey released earlier had
said 36 percent of all the software installed on computers
worldwide in 2003 was downloaded illegally…”
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