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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 5 Nov 92 11:55:49 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.115549.10113@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <1992Nov5.152511.12182@city.cs> <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@acoma.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >
- >Piracy is a crime, which is a result of
- >poverty, and that's no bull.
-
- Yeah, right... tell that to all my "poverty stricken" friends who have
- a couple hundred bucks a month of "play money," but would rather spend it
- on CDs, movies, eating out, stereo equipment, computer hardware, etc.
-
- Most people I know who pirate software _have_ the money to pay for computer
- programs, it's just that they _choose_ to spend it on tangible goods. They
- know that the likelihood of anyone ever catching and prosecuting them is
- about nil.
-
- Piracy is morally corrupt, and even true lack of funds does not justify
- is, just like being poor doesn't justify robbing grocery stores.
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-
- P.S. -- I do support short term "piracy" for evaluation purposes of software.
- If you borrow some friend's software and then, at the end of a week or so of
- working with it, even toss it or purchase the software, I think you're still
- OK. And I don't think too many rational software publishers would disagree...
-