Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for sample software ethics documents Message-ID: <18210@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 23 Mar 89 07:11:57 GMT References: <3720@phri.UUCP> <1317@bucket.UUCP> Sender: John B. Nagle Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 23 The Software Publisher's Association has a piracy-suppression program. They will send posters and literature if requested. (No, I don't have the address handy.) Lotus is noted for an especially agressive piracy-suppression operation. On one occasion, a major Wall-Street financial-services firm was raided by Federal marshals searching for illegal copies of 1-2-3. They found many. All were confiscated, and Lotus wouldn't sell them replacements. Ground their operation to a stop for a while. Written up in the Wall Street Journal at that time, about three or four years ago. Others with very strong efforts in this area include Microsoft and Autodesk. A recent effort by these companies to pressure the State Department into pressuring Brazil into ending legal software piracy there was successful; piracy is now illegal in Brazil. Taiwan and Hong Kong are being worked on. With any of these companies, any advertisement that actually indicates pirated copies of their product for sale will result in major unpleasantness rather quickly. Not just threatening letters, either. John Nagle