Re: COMMENT: India's software piracy causes loss of Rs 900 crore annually

[Amarendra GODBOLE <amarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000, the greycells of Frederick Noronha expressed:

> Below is a very interesting news-item. The arguments (and the stand
> taken) have implications for all of us who would like to see
> free-shareable Linux grow. How would the others on the list respond to
> arguments explicitly stated or implied, such as: 
> 1. Piracy "losses" in India exceed Rs 900 crore.
> 2. Continuing piracy means higher prices for the consumer
> 3. Piracy means less publisher revenue to invest in new products
> 4. "Thousands" of jobs are lost since proprietary s/w is not purchased


Can someone explain to me, how piracy causes losses ? What I understand is that, if 
you pay for software, say Oracle, those companies get rich, how does it affect us, 
whether we use official copies, or pirated ones ?

Anyway, we pay an Exhorbitant fee for those so called "Official" Propietary Softwares.

Can someone enlighten me on this ?

Regards,
-amar-


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