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Originally Posted by fugazied
What they mean to say is: "Open source let people get stuff for free. We hate people getting stuff for free, so we'll blame it for encouraging that free stuff culture". In the philosophy of open source, Eric Raymond, Stallman and so on, they do not encourage piracy and are very strict about correctly licensing work. They don't like copyrighted material, but if it's copyrighted, these guys say 'pay for it'.
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You’re right. The Open Source people are very strict about imposing terms of conditions of GNU or otherwise licensed software. Just watch them go when they get a sniff of some hot-shot company misusing the terms of open software license
They will be the last people in the world encouraging or helping piracy. Actually, it is the people who sell software for commercial gain that make real piracy work.
In the place where I work currently, you can still buy a laptop computer and get it pre-loaded with any software or OS as a "courtesy service". You can go to flee markets or even some shopping centres and buy anything from the new version of IBM WebSphere to the newest Wii games for about 3 USD.
That is where piracy really hurts - when people do it for financial gains.