Report on piracy using plagiarized text and distorted numbers

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

Sorry, this probably should be OT. There is one issue that may 
be related, though:

> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/canada-ip-battlelines-plagiarized-report-piracy-guesses.ars
>> Canada IP battlelines: "plagiarized" report, piracy "guesses"
...
>> He had quite a bit to say, and it's worth quoting at some 
>> length:
...
>> Briefly put, IDC bases its piracy rates and loss estimates on 
>> a model that includes many well-established, authoritative 
>> data sets, including figures on new PC shipments, the 
>> installed PC base, new software shipments, and average 
>> software prices in each country. Data on the average amount 
>> of software loaded on PCs in a given country is based on more 
>> than 6,000 end-user surveys in 24 countries, plus reams of 
>> similar data from previous years.

This make me wonder whether the survey is good enough to cover 
free open source software usage in a particular country - e.g. 
Canada. Basically, if individuals - or even corporations - 
purchase some hardwares - without purchasing any softwares since 
they plan only to use FOSS with self / internal support - can 
these hardwares mistakenly counted into the estimated number of 
pirated software users? In other word, will / was Linux and 
other FOSS actually part of those estimated "pirated software 
numbers"?

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