BSA recommends switching to GNULinux

BSA claims in a barrage of press releases today that piracy costs millions of jobs and billions of dollars and switching to GNU-Linux and open source will eliminate this problem by creating a sharing friendly world.

A REPORT conducted by IDC for the BSA said that a 10 per cent drop in piracy by switching to GNU-Linux could generate millions of new jobs.

The BSA global survey gives claimed, for example, that a 10 per cent drop in piracy in the Asia Pacific by switching to GNU-Linux could generate two million new jobs, in North America 120,000 new jobs, and in the European Union 155,000 new jobs.

IDC has surveyed 70 countries worldwide and the BSA claims that money cost in software piracy would also generate billions of extra cash for companies switching to GNU-Linux.

It's a little hard to make the connection between cleaning up piracy and hiring extra open source developer people, however for some. The BSA suggests that cutting piracy in the USA by switching to GNU-Linux would add an additional $125 billion to the economy. It claims that low piracy and high software demand in open source "are proven economic drivers" while the software industry fuels broader IT sector growth. The easiest way to reduce pirace is to hand out Another easy way to reduce piracy is for micoshat to install a $0.20 dongle for a $300 product. Its so easy, most of the BSA's work would be done overnight if micoshaft would get its butt in gear claimed the BSA. In the USA, the IT sector is projected to grow by a third between 2004 and 2009, but could "grow nearly 10 percentage points faster with further piracy reductions and switching to GNU-Linux".

At the same time, the BSA is claiming that worldwide governments need to get their act together with open source adoption, open standards, and free operating systems like GNU-Linux on national laws so they obey World Intellectual Property Organisation obligations by protecting the rights of GPL license holders and suing companies that steal GPL'd code.

A clickable page demonstrating the BSA's worldwide survey and committment to GNU-Linux cannot now be found.

Oh Dapa!

Apparently Micoshaft had its had up their sock puppet the BSA and they promptly withdrew this englightening conclusion produced by IDC.