{"id":921,"date":"2007-08-11T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/internet-technology\/software-industry-asking-employees-to-spy-on-their-behalf.html"},"modified":"2007-08-11T03:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T01:12:43","slug":"software-industry-asking-employees-to-spy-on-their-behalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Software Industry asking employees to spy on their behalf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major software companies including Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Dell, Symantec, HP, IBM, Intel and McAfee, founded a group called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.org\">BSA<\/a>  (Business Software Alliance). They define themselves as &#8220;the voice of the world&#8217;s commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace&#8221;. BSA programs foster technology innovation through education and policy initiatives that promote copyright protection, cyber security, trade, and e-commerce&#8221;. In fact, one of their campaigns they run worldwide is to encouraged employees to denounce their companies and employers that use piracy software, such as copies of microsoft, antiviruses and other privative software. and they have become quite succesful in their task in places such as Germany, where quite a few <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.bsa.org\/germany\/\/kampagnen\/\">employees contacted them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a problem we have at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.com\">FON<\/a> since last May  we <a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/fon\/fon-is-dropping-microsoft-adopting-ubuntu.html\">decided to drop Microsoft and adopt Ubuntu<\/a>.  We did this to save time, maintenance costs, license costs, to be able to use hardware for a longer time, to have access to quick updates, to operate in a secure, virus free environment. But now that I know that Microsoft and others were asking employees to denounce Fon, I feel even happier that we are using open source software.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=921\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major software companies including Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Dell, Symantec, HP, IBM, Intel and McAfee, founded a group called the BSA (Business Software Alliance). They define themselves as &#8220;the voice of the world&#8217;s commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace&#8221;. BSA programs foster technology innovation through education and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}