Yuan Meng: Run Ubuntu9.04! My views on piracy rate

Some people (such as BSA) assert that the software piracy rate in China is as high as 80%. Some people disagree with this statement. What is this? In the past two days, I have changed my computer to an Intel E5200 processor, a wide display, and run Ubuntu9.04. The processor seller confirmed that the Intel Pentium processor E5200 is reducing the price and the user has received benefits. The European Union said that Intel monopolized the market and there is no reason. Is the E5200 quality good! However, AMD processors are also popular. Intel is about to launch Moblin2.0 (about Compu

Some people (such as BSA) assert that the software piracy rate in China is as high as 80%. Some people disagree with this statement. What is this?

In the past two days, I had a computer with an Intel E5200 processor, a wide display, and run Ubuntu 9.04. The processor seller confirmed that the Intel Pentium processor E5200 is reducing the price and the user has received benefits. The European Union said that Intel monopolized the market and there is no reason. Is the E5200 quality good! However, AMD processors are also popular. Intel is about to launch Moblin 2.0 (around June 2, during the Computex Taipei Exhibition ~ 6), indicating that its business focus has been transferred to the MID, no longer concerned with AMD on the PC processor, the EU is in the dark.

For BSA, focus only on commercial software. (Commercial) software is different from other products. You can only purchase the right to use it for money, and it does not belong to you. Commercial software must be bound to a computing device. Generally, one-to-one software is used illegally, that is, pirated software. Piracy occurs in many ways, and sometimes it is confusing to use pirated software products. How to calculate the piracy rate? We imagine that there are only 100 computers in total on a small island (tourist attraction) located in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Assuming that the operating system XP of 60 computers was pirated by the BSA, the piracy rate in the island would be at least 60% if no additional commercial applications were pirated. This shows that the piracy rate is not directly related to users (visitors. If there are a variety of commodity software products on the island, and the piracy rate of each commodity software product is different, the highest piracy rate is the overall piracy rate on the island (MAX principle for short ).

Calculating the overall piracy rate in a country with a large population is not a simple task. However, some situations need to be explained. Since GNU software is different from commercial software, GNU users (such as pure Linux users) should not be included in the scope of piracy rate calculation. We have understood the number of irrelevant versions of Linux users. For example, there are many and many Linux users in a country, but in the view of BSA, the piracy rate of its commercial software products may still be very high.

In my opinion, it is entirely possible to assert that the anti-piracy rate of commercial software (products) in China is 80% based on the above MAX principles. The obvious fact is that in China, the XP piracy rate is extremely high. It is a little polite to say that the XP piracy rate is 80%. However, the 80% anti-piracy rate of BSA cannot lead to the conclusion that 80% of computer users in China are all moderators. This is totally different.

The only way to reduce the piracy rate of commodity software is to strengthen legal education of the public, raise awareness of copyright protection, and crack down on stubborn elements in tomato garden. Generally, developing Linux alone cannot reduce the piracy rate of commercial software. Frankly speaking, China's commercial software environment is still in its infancy, commercial software is not developing, the piracy rate is not further reduced, and pirated software is flooded. What should we talk about Developing Linux? The declining rate of commercial software piracy in China is a great thing. To develop commercial software in China, we must dance with BSA.

(Note: This short article is almost finished. I have touched the self-starting USB flash drive that is still working. The cool, and the fluorescent lamp on it is still flashing. I would like to thank OpenOffice.org 9.04, the office suite provided by Ubuntu 3.0. Ah, it's another morning. What a wonderful life !)