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- From: chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
- Subject: Re: The Perennial Piracy Debate (was Re: Bilestoad)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.175017.21792@ils.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:50:17 GMT
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- :In article <19474@fritz.filenet.com> ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung) writes:
- :>In article <!frms1j.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- :>|rticle <15cv1aINN1md@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu) writes:
- :>||In article <avnmy+_.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- : >|| You know, you are really off the deep end.. You're being
- : >||semantically picky, when you should know very well what Jawaid was talking
- : >||about.
-
- : >|| Of COURSE freeware and software that you've written are legal to
- : >||use. Don't be a bonehead.
-
- : >|I may be a bonehead, but I can read. You omitted the text where Jawaid
- : >|clearly said that if you did not -pay- for the software you are committing
- : >|a crime. I said that it's absolutely wrong as stated, and it is.
-
- : >No, it is not. FREEWARE is paid for. The price tag is $0.00, paid in
- : >full upon receipt. Software you have written you've paid for in terms
- : >of time and effort. You can set the price tag at $0.00 or $1000.00, in
- : >either case, I doubt you'll have a problem paying yourself whatever
- : >price tag you choose ... and if you do, well, that probably belongs in
- : >some psychotherapy newsgroup. So therefore, in both cases, the software
- : >IS paid for. Just for the record, I'll have to agree that being a
- : >bonehead is stupid. Argue intelligently and don't waste bandwidth on
- : >things like picky semantics.
- : You can post the above twaddle and complain that I am being picky about
- : semantics in the same sentence? You pay nothing for freeware, if you
- : pay, it ain't free. And your hypocrisy is showing.
- :
- : >|I'd
- : >|rather be a bonehead that have a reading problem and be quoting impaired.
-
- : >Perhaps he was saving bandwidth? I'll agree, he probably should have
- : >quoted it though.
-
- : >|And BTW, I find your bonehead assertion rather a personal attack.
-
- : >But not undeserved?
-
- : Completely, absolutely, 100% undeserved. Next...
-
- [rest discounted]
- : >|Rich
- : >|payner@netcom.com
-
- : >Bill Ung
- : > ung@filenet.com
-
- : Rich again
-
- Will the two of you take this personal attack war to e-mail? This totally
- ridiculous. Rich, you're better than this. I think this has turned into who
- can outwhit the other for personal attacks......STOP.
-
- Thank you.
-
- Amrit
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