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Are Proprietary Software Comanies Tolerating User Piracy?

by Alan Langford | 2007-10-31 | Observations on Everything

Several years ago Corel’s then-CEO Michael Cowpland made quite a stir with his offhand attitude to software piracy. Paraphrasing, the slant of what he said was that he’d rather have people use unauthorized copies of his product than those of a competitor. [I have been unable to find a reference for this.] (more…)

Consumers Can (and Should) Restructure the Canadian Economy

by Alan Langford | 2007-10-28 | Observations on Everything

Canadians: Want to help your country become globally competitive? Buy American!

If that sounds like a contradiction… (more…)

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