The Businesses software Alliance (BSA) is international syndicate of software providers. The BSA represents its members by lobbying within the ranges copyright and license-conformal trade with software. The BSA steps again and again with actions against not licensed software to the public and supports punishing pursuers with the procedure against software robbery copiers.

World-wide members of the BSA are Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley of system, boron country, Cisco Systems, CNC software/Mastercam, HP, IBM, Intel, Internet Security of system, Intuit, Macromedia, Microsoft, Network Associates, PeopleSoft, RSA Security, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, trend Micro, UGS PLM Solutions and VERITAS software.

German members of the BSA are: AttachmateWRQ, Nemetschek, O & O software, XQDC and Corel.

Activities of the BSA

A substantial field of application of the BSA consists of it, enterprises, which do not use correctly licensed software to identify and entangle into processes. According to recent self-data of the BSA determination could be completed and pursuit of unlizenzierten software employment in Germany more cases in things. The total number of the computers, the goal of BSA were, rose according to press explanation of the BSA of 2.900 to over 11.000. As consequence the prosecution authorities turned 2004 in approximately 400 cases to the BSA (2003: 350). The number of the BSA of locked cases increased by approximately 190 per cent and is for 2004 about 740 (2003: 256).

Doubt about the strategy of the BSA members

Whether this pursuit of companies, which do not use correctly licensed software in the long run actually leads to more conversion software for the manufacturers, is questionable. From Insiderkreisen it is to be heard that the disconcertion, which results by the campaigns of the BSA leads straight in small and middle enterprises very strongly to a higher acceptance of harmless open SOURCE alternatives.

Related links

• Business software Alliance (English)
• BSA celebrates successes in the fight against illegal software employment (heise on-line)

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