[lug] Re: [NCLUG] the BSA truce

[D. Stimits]

I can't resist...who is this BSA (I already know they suck, but more)?

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:46:45PM -0700, S. Luke Jones wrote:
> >Has anyone else gotten the obnoxious letter from the
> >Business Software Alliance declaring a truce? A truce
> 
> Yeah, Evelyn got one too...  "We only use properly licensed
> free software."  ;-)
> 
> The letter basicly says "Go out and buy a bunch of software, and
> when our inspectors come by just show them the receipts for the
> a butt-load of software you bought (hopefully from the people
> who are paying us Monday, like Adobe) and we'll leave you alone."
> 
> I bet you they're tracking their success by sales increasees over
> the next month...
> 
> >I think NCLUG (LUGs everywhere?) should prepare a
> >response (I'm thinking of something like "Nuts!"*)
> >and, uh, do something with it.  Who could we send a
> >press release to?
> 
> That's a fantastic idea.  I'm going to copy this to BLUG and the Meta
> list.  "Tired of getting threatened with suprise inspections of your
> computers?  They suggest you go out and buy their software, we
> would like to give you ours."
> 
> Sean
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> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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