Jerry,

>>>>BSA is not just concerned with MS stuff. They represent others as well. BSA is an alliance. If you call MS a bad guy then Apple, Macromedia, IBM, Novell, and Adobe must be too.
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>>>Ya, and the Gulf war was fought by a lot of countries. :)
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>>I don't get the comment. Are you saying the US was the only "fighting" party for the coalition?
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>>Dan
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>Take the US military out of the Gulf coalition forces and there wouldn't have been a military response to Iraq.

You don't know that. Pure speculation.

>Take MS out of the BSA and you won't have a BSA. Proof: why are all the pirating concerns over WinXX?

I don't think all of the pirating concerns are about Windows. I think the just look to make sure a business is in compliance for the products they look for. Be it Windows, Flash, Acrobat, or whatever. It's cheaper for software companies to form an alliance than to individually hunt down pirates themselves.

>How many, by comparison, actions against pirates of other software have you seen. A handful, for puposes of publicity to make the BSA seem less like an MS tool.

Well, you can't beleive everything thing you read but http://www.bsa.org does have some interesting tidbits.

Dan