home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!mucs!lucs!news.csc!abaddon
- From: abaddon@uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum (Kevin o donovan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Piracy of software
- Message-ID: <ABADDON.92Dec16113909@suprenum.uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 11:44:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.131359.23979@crc.ac.uk> <1g5lrqINNp3t@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> <1g92vdINN1em5@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- Sender: news@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk (News Eater)
- Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK
- Lines: 27
- Nntp-Posting-Host: supr.scm.liv.ac.uk
-
- >>>>> On 11 Dec 92 03:46:53 GMT, aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) said:
- > NNTP-Posting-Host: rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de
-
- > In <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:
-
- > However, this reason for prohibiting stealing applies in no way
- > to software. If someone copies my disk, I still have the
- > original. I neither have to spend a significant amount of time
- > without my program, nor do I have to spend any money for getting
- > another disk.
- But they are stealing from the true owners of the software, the people
- who wrote it. If you check your software (assuming any of its original)
- you'll probably find a licensing agreement on it, which you agreed to
- when you bought the software. And before we come out with the line about
- "Pirating only hurts the software companies, not the programmers, so
- that's why I do it", lets ask some of these programmers whether or not
- they'd like to give you a pat on the back for ripping of their work.
-
- > flow is a severe problem of software property. It is absurd that
- > a programmer writes software so people can use it, and then he
- > has to prevent most people from using it in order to turn it into
- > money.
- Can someone send a copy of this thread to Richard Stallman? I'm sure
- he'd be thrilled to see what people are using the ideals of the Gnu
- project to justify. Not.
-
- Kev
-