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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Piracy of software
- Message-ID: <724424202.13197@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 12:56:42 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- >In <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:
- >
- >>The people I see stealing
- >>pc software are usually honest enough to admit that their motive is
- >>greed, not some lofty aspiration to make the world a better place :-)
- >
- >Most people I see selling software are honest enough to admit
- >exactly the same...
- >
- >Greetinx, Jan
- >
- > +- Jan Kim -- X.400: S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
- > | Internet: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de |
- > | |
- > *----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*
-
- Honest pay for a day's work isn't greed. If half the copies of my software
- are stolen, then 50% of my day is spent supporting thieves. The answer to
- high prices/low quality is to not use the software--not to use it without
- paying for it.
-
- If information and software should flow freely, then who's going to pay my
- rent?
-
- - Ron Sharp.
-