The idea of innovation is to make the wheels spin perfectly
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Software Piracy
I agree that software piracy kills innovation as piracy can destroy the revenue stream of small businesses which have successfully found a niche in the industry. Without this revenue these small companies lack the resources to fund software innovation projects. As a result it becomes very difficult for these small businesses to create their own innovation.
The idea of innovation is to make the wheels spin perfectly
Software Piracy as defined by http://www.developer-resource.com/software-piracy.htm is the unauthorized use of computer software. When a developer spent inexorable time into creating an idea, a product or service such a developer is looking forward into putting such idea into production. Now if it is pirated, it therefore means that such an idea is no longer unique. If your idea or product is no longer unique then it simple means the market niche is split which eventually will split profits as customers have more than one supplier. To be INNOVATIVE you need creative business ideas, with the spirit of an entrepreneur you can turn these ideas into real sustainable solutions.
The idea of innovation is to make the wheels spin perfectly
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I agree that piracy kills innovation as companies invest a lot of resources to launch a new product or service, which as times suffer at the hands of piracy. Take for instance Hollywood, due to the usage of online pirating websites they have lost a lot of potential revenue and it does not stop at Hollywood, the music industry, authors, software production companies and others a like also face these challenges.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and factual post. It is indeed a sad case when you have been cheated out of something you have worked relentlessly on and invested so much time and effort into making reality, only to have it be snatched and credited by someone else. One such example of software piracy is explained in a Gleaner article captioned "Settlement in software piracy case" http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100328/lead/lead5.html. Good read.
ReplyDeleteI believe on one hand that piracy does kill/impede innovation. This is so because many of us chose to sit around and wait for new technology and software to hit the market then we jump on the band wagon and copy the idea to develop similar products, this is typical in China and other parts of the world. If more persons would strive to becoming a social entrepreneur then there would be a marginal need to copy other persons work.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, software piracy can be used as the platform to stimulate ideas that can take on existing product and make it better, which can yield better utility to consumers.