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- From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
- Subject: Re: Piracy of software
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.004206.18987@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <1g5lrqINNp3t@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1992Dec10.163208.17015@microware.com> <1g9uprINNqaj@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:42:06 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1g9uprINNqaj@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
- >In <1992Dec10.163208.17015@microware.com> jejones@microware.com (James Jones) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1g5lrqINNp3t@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de writes:
- >>>I don't subscribe to this point of view at all. This way of
- >>>looking at things overlooks the central fact that software piracy
- >>>is tightly coupled to software overpricing...
- >
- >>Overpricing according to whom? According to the people trying to rationalize
- >>software theft?
- >
- >The fact that people who pirate stuff out of sheer greed
- >sometimes like to abuse this argument does not invalidate it.
- >Software is overpriced according to a lot of sensible lines of
- >reasoning. E.g. a good fantasy book is very comparable to a good
- >fantasy game, in terms of intellectual effort and time it takes
- >to produce them. Nonetheless, a game is typically 10 to 20 times
- >more expensive than a book. I think it perfectly appropriate and
- >justified to call this software overpricing.
- >
- >Greetinx, Jan
-
- If software is overpriced, don't buy it. The price of what you
- steal doesn't magically change what you are doing, therefore you
- are still a thief if you steal things.
-
- There have been cases where an overpriced software product was
- undercut by a competitor (eg Dbase-FoxPro) who provided similar
- functionality at a lower price.
-
- Look, if you're gonna steal software, be honest enough to admit that
- you're too cheap to buy it. Don't take some bogus lofty higher moral
- justification. This is not directed at you personally Jan, just my
- general frothing-at-the-mouth reaction to hearing the same old
- excuses :-)
-
- Well, I've probably inserted my foot far enough into my mouth to
- produce some reaction :-)
-
- Mike Healy
-
- healy@nosc.mil
-
-