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Comments: 1 +-   BSA's Tactics and Motives Questioned on Monday January 28 2008, @11:34PM _Hellfire_

Submitted by _Hellfire_ on Monday January 28 2008, @11:34PM
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_Hellfire_ writes "Baseline Magazine has a piece entitled After 20 Years, Critics Question the BSA's Real Motives, which paints the Business Software Alliance in the same league as the RIAA.
"A recent Associated Press story highlighted the fact that 90 percent of the $13 million collected by the BSA in 2006 came from small businesses. Since 1993 the group has collected an estimated $89 million in damages from businesses on behalf of its members, every penny of which it keeps.
"I don't know of a business where you can get away with raiding a customer with armed marshals and expect them to continue to do business with you..." said [Sterling] Ball, who shifted his company to open source software after the raid.""
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  • I don't know of a business where you can get away with raiding a customer with armed marshals and expect them to continue to do business with you...
    I keep looking for some way to stop doing business with the IRS. They've collected a heck of a lot more than $89 million since 1993.
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