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Archive for September, 2006

FairUse4WM Isn’t Illegal

It seems a little strange to be writing about a piece of Windows software here, because I’ve not used Windows for about 5 years. It turns out that, while I’ve been happily ripping my CDs and encoding them with Ogg Vorbis, the unfortunate souls still using the other OS are having to put up with [...]

Government Enforcement Of Software Licenses

The British government is being encouraged to help the BSA (the Business Software Alliance), who are the proprietary software industry’s kneecap gang, enforce the purchasing of software licenses by fining those who are found to be lacking the required licences.
Contrary to what you might think, I’m actually in favour of this.
For starters, the general procedure [...]