Properly Licensed Software Delivers a Competitive Advantage
May 29, 2013
You may want to check out “Competitive Advantage: the Economic Impact of Properly Licensed Software.” This is a report prepared for the BSA The Software Alliance (www.bsa.org). According to the information available at http://portal.bsa.org/insead/index.html:
A new study from BSA | The Software Alliance and INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools, finds that increasing the amount of properly licensed software in use globally by one percent would add an estimated $73 billion to the world economy, compared to $20 billion from pirated software — meaning there is a $53 billion advantage associated with using licensed software. The study also finds the greatest potential for economic gains are in emerging markets where piracy is most common today.
Beefy statement. The news release uses the word “groundbreaking.” You will have to judge for yourself.
Stephen E Arnold, May 29, 2013
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