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- From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
- Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:21:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.202149.29101@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
- References: <1992Jul29.181906.27867@athena.cs.uga.edu> <bazyar.712471586@teal>
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- Senator Joseph Bazyar said B-):
-
- >software, and release it for free. Fine. But then we have near-communists
- >like Richard Stallman who will try to convince you that selling software is
- >somehow morally wrong.
-
- There have never been Communists, Senator - only State-Monopoly-Capitalists.
- And those are currently a laughing-stock in Eastern Europe.
-
- Is Richard Stallman the GNU guy? Isn't there a certain irony in your
- statement, then? B-)
-
- > Folks, capitalism works. It's messy sometimes, but it works. Is it
-
- Jawaid, it seems to me that this is a tenet you've bought into without
- really thinking about it. How messy would it have to be before you'd decide
- that it _didn't_ work? How much ecological devestation, social inequity,
- and paradoxical lawmaking is worth it for a point of ideology? This part
- of the thread should probably die, I suppose...if you still believe this
- strongly in the muzzy ideas of one R. Reagan, you simply haven't thought
- about it enough (IMO), and I probably can't change your mind with any
- argument B-|.
-
- Re: your other point about piracy "killing the IIGS" - you can't kill a
- tool. What has happened is that the mass preference has moved to another
- tool. Why has this happened? Apple isn't entirely guiltless - though to
- speak of "Apple" these days encompasses too much. The company has gotten
- a bit too large, and operates at cross-purposes in this area. But Apple's
- past decisions condemning the Apple ][ line were driven by capitalism
- (and greed & fear in the higher echelons). Is capitalism working for you,
- then? If you really believed in the big C to the degree you espouse, you'd
- be developing software for Windows - because that's what the system demands.
- That you're not doing so indicates to me that you're still saveable B-).
-
- btw, _within the capitalist framework_, one of the major things that
- adversely affected ][ software development was probably AppleWorks. The
- only company that really managed to gain anything from that product was
- Beagle, and they did it in a rape-it-and-leave-it kind of way.
-
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- Marc Sira |
- toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
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