[ANN] piratewatch.org developer community
[ANN] piratewatch.org developer community
- Subject: [ANN] piratewatch.org developer community
- From: Wincent Colaiuta <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:15:55 +0200
There have been some great threads on this mailing list over the
years about licensing, serial number generation, product activation,
piracy and all that's related to it. Needless to say such threads
often get out of hand and off-topic and stray far from the official
subject matter of the list (Cocoa programming!). I am sure though
that these are issues that developers think about and want to discuss.
Yesterday, I launched piratewatch.org, a developer community intended
to provide a forum for exactly that purpose. At the moment it's just
an idea (and a domain name, and some freshly installed forum
software!). I'd like to invite everyone who is interested in this
area to take a look and join the community. Over time I think we can
build this into a valuable resource for us all.
So for the interested the site is at http://piratewatch.org/ and
here's the blurb that I posted to the site yesterday:
--
Piracy is an unavoidable reality and one of the costs of running a
software small business. Just as you must pay rent, electricity,
wages and other costs, you end up losing sales to piracy as well,
which makes piracy a virtual "running cost".
Although eliminating piracy entirely would be impossible, by spending
a small amount of time trying to reduce it you benefit your business
and your customers. If by dedicating 5% of your time to anti-piracy
you can eliminate 80 or 90% of piracy then your sales will be better,
your business healthier, and you'll be able to invest more resources
into the development of your software (to the benefit of all your
users).
The pirate community lives by sharing (their motto is "stw" or "share
the wealth") so why shouldn't developers use the same information-
sharing strategy? The purpose of piratewatch.org is to help
developers share information and resources that will help them combat
and minimize piracy in an efficient way. Just like the pirates, we
will achieve much more in much less time if we work together rather
than alone. The pirate community is bound together by a common
interest (getting stuff for free); developers have their own obvious
common interests too, so it makes sense to build an anti-piracy
community. There is clearly a demand for such a community because any
anti-piracy threads on development mailing lists invariably grow
until they are among the longest and a moderator cuts off discussion
because it's deemed "off topic"... yet it's evidently something that
people want to talk about.
Piratewatch.org is not about vigilantism or revenge on pirates, it's
about combatting piracy in a legal way. Some of the forums accessible
to developers on this site include:
* Research tools
* Infringement alerts
* Technical
* Know your enemy
* Legal resources
--
I hope to see you there soon.
Best wishes,
Wincent Colaiuta
http://wincent.com/
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