links for 2009-05-16

Madam, – Just to be clear (as the Government seems to be in collective denial), the reason Fianna Fáil is doing badly in the polls and will do badly on June 5th is not because they are making “the hard decisions for economic recovery” but because they brought the country to the brink of economic oblivion. – Yours, etc,

Why do so many people support software piracy? The answer is because pirated software is very cheap. I have a creative method to reduce software piracy - software companies can give some useful things to customers free, such as rice and shopping coupons. This will attract many people to buy software from their companies instead of buying things from pirate merchants. (dave: the real cure for software piracy is to encourage more use of open source software.)