Unlicensed software costs SA R4 billion

What is South Africa's Market Licensed value? Can't seem to find it in the article.
 
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how does this cost SA billions? It costs the software companies billions in terms of lost profits which obviously means loss of taxable income, but I think billions is an over statement
 
Really guys. Lets add more context here.

BSA’s Global Software Survey found that in South Africa, the unlicensed software rate was at 34%, down from 35% in the prior survey conducted in 2011.
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South Africa’s unlicensed software installation rate was the lowest in Africa, ahead of the likes of Egypt (62%) Nigeria (81%), Kenya (78%), and Tunisia (75%).
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The assumption is that all of these individuals would have purchased the software, if they did not opt to pirate. I think this is incorrect as most of the people would not have bought the software anyway.
 
GimmeMore said:
The assumption is that all of these individuals would have purchased the software, if they did not opt to pirate. I think this is incorrect as most of the people would not have bought the software anyway.
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Home users aside, people who use software for their business should pay. I think this is where the majority of the high price software items are going. Not to mention misusing volume licensing.
 
Fudzy said:
Home users aside, people who use software for their business should pay. I think this is where the majority of the high price software items are going. Not to mention misusing volume licensing.
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+1.

Our company's livelihood is based upon selling software and supporting it - if we were to now suddenly lose 30% of that due to piracy (although given how it's written and works, I think it's rather unlikely), it would definitely hurt.
Having a stable income for the company in this manner also ensures that we are able to keep costs bearable for clients in terms of licensing and support costs.
 
My q is... if it were possible to enforce proper software licensing, would our IT landscape look different?
 
iaywtimnbe said:
My q is... if it were possible to enforce proper software licensing, would our IT landscape look different?
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It would look very different.. large numbers of small businesses wouldn't be able to operate the way that they do.
 
Correction, it costs software companies billions since most of them are not in South Africa. Not paying actually puts SA in a stronger position and strengthens the rand.
 
ToxicBunny said:
It would look very different.. large numbers of small businesses wouldn't be able to operate the way that they do.
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Or large numbers of any sized businesses would be using Ubuntu and Libreoffice and software devs would be doing alot more browser based apps.
 
Pirated software has a massive impact on the local market.

Remember, only slightly more than half of what end-user customers pay for software actually ends up in the coffers of the (major) software vendors. Sometimes less.

Easily 30-40% of the revenues are retained in the local channel, that is SA dealers and distributors. So for every R1 billion in pirated software, SA businesses lose out on around R350-R400 million. This directly affects IT industry employment and salaries.

And that does not include the 14% VAT due to the fiscus, nor the income tax that companies and individuals would pay.

So, every time you pirate a piece of software, you're taking it from the pockets of more than half the people on MyBB, because they're employed in an industry that's making less turnover and less profit than they otherwise would.
 
Swa said:
Correction, it costs software companies billions since most of them are not in South Africa. Not paying actually puts SA in a stronger position and strengthens the rand.
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So would this now be patriotic then?
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Swa said:
Correction, it costs software companies billions since most of them are not in South Africa. Not paying actually puts SA in a stronger position and strengthens the rand.
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False. Up to half the revenues are lost to SA businesses.

And then there's the loss of integrity and ethical erosion...
 
We didn't even make it on to the top 20 list. Why the BSA assumes people were going to buy everything they pirated I have no idea. I wouldn't actually be surprised if they counted nagware as unlicensed as well.
 
Arthur said:
Remember, only slightly more than half of what end-user customers pay for software actually ends up in the coffers of the (major) software vendors. Sometimes less.
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I'm pretty sure the monthly fee of $50 I pay to rent Adobe CS to Adobe US goes directly to Adobe US.

I am convinced that the fees I pay for all the other software on my Mac, in US $, to US suppliers, goes directly to those suppliers.

Maybe MS donates to the local economy went I rent Office 365 and when I buy windoze but I am pretty sure that's where it ends.
 
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