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Story: Quarter of Australia's software is counterfeit
That's rubbish
Here we go again, another "industy paid piracy survey".
These survey findings have been static in nature for the last 10 to 15 years!
Our observation is that there has been NO appreciable downturn in the piracy rate despite these continued "survey" claims. The figures in reality from our perspective and experience are a lot higher.
As a seller of software to end user sites, over 90% of them want it for free and when you ask them for payment they are not keen to pay a cent and turn to free tools over paid software every day.
In fact they feel affronted when you ask for fees for software licences, like, why should they?
The software industry is hurting a hell of a lot due the "It's soft therefore its free mindset" of end users and the EULA and the BSA are causing this ansgt along with the Gen Y'ers who won't pay zip for any software at all!
In fact the Gen Y'ers have all the tools they need to circumvent and copy software at their fingertips and they will resist any software fees as a matter of principle.
Piracy rates will remain high and talking about how many jobs will be created if the piracy rate drops several %age points up to 10% is a load of cobblers. Someone is drinking their own bathwater!
Quite frankly the stats are not believeable or supportable.
It's time for a sea change in thinking on licensing issues, EULAs, software fees, and the attitudes of executives top down to the shop floor about paying for software!
Software companies will diminish in size as more and more sites gravitate to free and open source software and the large megasloths will slip away, so destroying the market models of free enterprise.
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