![Reading through this story got me so upset that I had to post about it.
Apparently, there are people in the US who want to equate using Open Source Software to [...]](http://www.voidtrance.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/linux_pirate-620x250.jpg "Have you used Linux? You are a criminal!")
Reading through this story got me so upset that I had to post about it.
Apparently, there are people in the US who want to equate using Open Source Software to piracy. That is just ridiculus. The two concepts are completely unrelated to each other. Open Source software is just that – open, as in free. You can’t pirate software that is free. You can pirate software that you have to pay money for and make it “free” but how do you make something “free” if it already is.
Yeah, I know, I know… The story goes on to say that the group that is pushing this is saying that governments who encourage the use of Open Source software are stifling competition because companies who sell their software will have a much harder time selling their products. My humbled opinion is that it should actually help. It should push software companies with paid product to make them better in a way that it’d be worth paying for them. Or, at least, I’d hope that’s what would happen. But the pessimist in me knows that’s a pipe dream.
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Apparently, there are people in the US who want to equate using Open Source Software to [...]](http://www.voidtrance.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/linux_pirate-36x36.jpg "Have you used Linux? You are a criminal!"){kind=small}
