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Shameless tactics from Microsoft describe Free software as "piracy" and now an "endemic problem"

Looks like there is a movement to link film piracy with terrorism in some effort to get tougher anti-piracy laws introduced.

The Internet can prove complex to some, especially copyright holders. Recently, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) notified the webhosting company of a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to Open Source Software, that it was infringing copyright of one of their clients. Without any notice, the webhosting company pulled the tracker offline, not realizing that the tracker had done nothing wrong.

I really don’t get it how people can continue pirating proprietary software like some Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) when there are quality, Free Software alternatives like the Gimp or Inkscape.

Imagine you, as a happy user of standard, proprietary software, were told that you should use 'free' software, so that you would have the freedom to use and share your software however you wanted. This argument would not convince many people on its own.

One of the perennial debates about the GNU/Linux desktop is how much it should resemble Windows. Usually, the debate is framed in terms of whether the desktop should look familiar to new users, or be developed in whatever way seems most logical.