Thank you BennyP for a nice post. From the legal point of view you made it all clear.
I guess this world is too twisted for this subject. Here are some few thoughts.
Autodesk and tekla company politics are very greedy, they are thief's too.
Why the same software, movie, music has different prices across the globe?
Because Autodesk says so.
What is the real price for it?
As much as Autodesk wishes.
By limiting! access to knowledge and technology I don't think humanity as a whole is gaining anything. People make differences developed countries vs undeveloped ones. This is ugly.
Wikipedia is one of the best things on the web. And it's free. Tell me of a commercial encyclopedia as large and clean and well done as wikipedia is. More important wikipedia is the product of many, for the benefit of many. While autocad is the product of few for the benefit of few. (Although they wish it were many, as much as there can be).
Wikipedia doesn't make the difference between developed countries and undeveloped ones, Octave neither. All it's free for everyone.
But Autodesk or Tekla, BSA do, they say South Africa 3000$/license, UK 4000$/license, ... country we don't want to sell there.
And more important wikipedia doesn't care if you use that information for making money or personal knowledge, or even if you give it to someone else.
Some licenses forbid reselling, in order to propagate the free price and product freedom.
How can you loose something that doesn't exist.
Yes one well paid guy at BSA drew a chart in excel of possible profits and surprise the profits were lower. Very sad. So BSA is now putting pressure on governments because they want to sell more and more and make more and more money.
Maybe a young teenager in South Africa learning now from wikipedia by using pirated windows will become a professor in UK after a few years.
Please don't take this personal (South Africa or UK) it's just an example, no politics in my sentence.
I find open source and free stuff based on donations the answer to all this. If not possible at least help other rival companies develop their products. So we can have alternatives. ZWCad instead of Autocad.
Piracy is not the answer. Stealing is a crime and like violence leads to further violence.
What about Archimedes, Greece or Archimedes relatives should ask money from everyone who wishes to read his words or use his "patents". You're a ship builder ok you pay for Archimedes work or else you can't build floating ships.
This whole copyright law is just a joke (that can get you in jail) that doesn't lead to progress. Human nature is to copy and while doing so improve the original design.
I guess this world is too twisted for this subject. Here are some few thoughts.
Autodesk and tekla company politics are very greedy, they are thief's too.
Why the same software, movie, music has different prices across the globe?
Because Autodesk says so.
What is the real price for it?
As much as Autodesk wishes.
By limiting! access to knowledge and technology I don't think humanity as a whole is gaining anything. People make differences developed countries vs undeveloped ones. This is ugly.
Wikipedia is one of the best things on the web. And it's free. Tell me of a commercial encyclopedia as large and clean and well done as wikipedia is. More important wikipedia is the product of many, for the benefit of many. While autocad is the product of few for the benefit of few. (Although they wish it were many, as much as there can be).
Wikipedia doesn't make the difference between developed countries and undeveloped ones, Octave neither. All it's free for everyone.
But Autodesk or Tekla, BSA do, they say South Africa 3000$/license, UK 4000$/license, ... country we don't want to sell there.
And more important wikipedia doesn't care if you use that information for making money or personal knowledge, or even if you give it to someone else.
Some licenses forbid reselling, in order to propagate the free price and product freedom.
Quote: In 2011, the Business Software Alliance announced that 83 percent of software deployed on PCs in Africa has been pirated (excluding South Africa).Has BSA actually lost anything? Possible clients yes but real clients NO.
How can you loose something that doesn't exist.
Yes one well paid guy at BSA drew a chart in excel of possible profits and surprise the profits were lower. Very sad. So BSA is now putting pressure on governments because they want to sell more and more and make more and more money.
Maybe a young teenager in South Africa learning now from wikipedia by using pirated windows will become a professor in UK after a few years.
Please don't take this personal (South Africa or UK) it's just an example, no politics in my sentence.
I find open source and free stuff based on donations the answer to all this. If not possible at least help other rival companies develop their products. So we can have alternatives. ZWCad instead of Autocad.
Piracy is not the answer. Stealing is a crime and like violence leads to further violence.
Quote:Critics in developing countries see this as an indirect technology transfer tax on their country, preventing technological advancement. This is the leading reason developing countries refuse to accept or respect copyright laws. This idea is often applied to patent laws as well.
What about Archimedes, Greece or Archimedes relatives should ask money from everyone who wishes to read his words or use his "patents". You're a ship builder ok you pay for Archimedes work or else you can't build floating ships.
This whole copyright law is just a joke (that can get you in jail) that doesn't lead to progress. Human nature is to copy and while doing so improve the original design.