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InfoAnarchy quotes a Malaysian report that the country may still fight piracy for commercial purposes but not prosecute users reproducing software for educational purposes.

Now–the twist. InfoAnarchy warns that Malaysia might actually “play into the software industry’s hands”–since the use of commercial software for educational purposes might then compete with the free, open source variety.

The TeleRead take: Microsoft and other companies give educational discounts. Is it possible, however, that they actually should think about freebies? InfoAnarchy raises some interesting possibilities. Certainly a TeleRead-style library would be an efficient way of distributing both open-source programs and the usual commercial software to K-12 students and others.

 
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