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- From: stud16@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Kurt Haenen)
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- References: <1992Nov5.152511.12182@city.cs> <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992NOV5.115549.10113@DOUG.CAE.WISC.EDU>
- Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 12:17:16 +01
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.121058@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
- Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
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- In article <1992NOV5.115549.10113@DOUG.CAE.WISC.EDU>, kolstad@cae.wisc.edu writes:
- > Piracy is morally corrupt, and even true lack of funds does not justify
- > is, just like being poor doesn't justify robbing grocery stores.
- >
-
- Ok, robbing grocery stores sucks, but those bank robberies, in the
- middle of the night, blowing some safe to pieces and getting away with
- all the money of some other criminal, THAT is style !!!
-
- I think I've seen too many movies ...
-
- Oh yeah, what I mean is : copying and using programs comming from
- someone who needs the stuff to survive, sucks, but copying programs
- comming from large companies, that keep the price up way too high,
- should be tolerated.
-
- PS: I'm a public domain user. Fishes are my best friends !
-
- > ---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...
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