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Get HelpPolitics. "More than a third of swedish government agencies use pirated software, and only 2 out of 10 are certain that they have payed for all the software they use." It would be interesting to see the specific numbers for agencies that create and uphold anti-piracy laws. Source in swedish (sorry).
Link posted by Olof
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- Source: www.idg.se
- Posted: 61 weeks ago in Politics
5 Comments
dempa wrote, 61 weeks ago:
This is a tough one. I mean, are we talking "using pirated software" as in sactioned by management? Or individual users managing to install pirated software on their own?
Olof wrote, 61 weeks ago:
Yeah... Well I think it's mostly individual users that install pirated software. But there can be whole departments in those agencies doing more or less organized piracy, I've seen it myself on a couple of publicly owned hospitals. In those cases it was not mainly software though, more music and films.
Peter wrote, 61 weeks ago:
It's no big surprise to me. A long time ago when I worked at very big and highly respected swedish (international) company the co-workers asked me off-hours to help them get some "juarez".
cameroneittreim wrote, 57 weeks ago:
I think as expensive as microsoft and most of the companys make their software that it's just easier to pirate it. What pisses me off is the fact it only costs about 10 cents to make a CD-R, I personally don't pirate software but I can see why people tend to use wares.
Olof wrote, 57 weeks ago:
Be careful in comparing the cost of manufacturing CD-Rs with the prices on software. Don't forget the thousands of man hours gone into creating the software.
But I also agree with you, software tend to be really expensive. I guess there's a good reason for it though.
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