"Software audits", checking small or medium size businesses for unauthorized copies of user-subjugating software are a form of organized bullying. They demand gigantic penalties in order to make the users collapse in fear.

The author of the article endorses the official position that proprietary software is legitimate and using unauthorized copies of proprietary software is doing wrong to the developer. He even calls that practice by the smear term, "piracy".

I think all that is mistaken. It is foolish to use proprietary software, whether authorized copies or not; but making and using unauthorized copies of proprietary software is not wrong. Rather, the wrong is in trying to STOP people from sharing and using software. In other words, the wrong is proprietary software.

These audits are just a part of the injustice of nonfree software. Your business can be safe by rejecting nonfree software.

The French finance minister says France will make Google and McDonalds pay all the tax they owe.

When a US drone bomber killed the leader of the Taliban, he was riding in a taxi. The bomb killed the taxi driver, who did not know who his passenger was.

The US government seems to have been coordinating with the architects of the coup in Brazil while they were setting it up.

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