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- From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: I found a pirate - w
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 5 1992
- Message-ID: <n0e23t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 11:11:08
- Lines: 35
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- > Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- > From: mwelie@cs.vu.nl (Welie van M)
- > Message-ID: BxHvCB.8zn@cs.vu.nl
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- >
- > shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1992Nov5.175120.9297@ifi.unizh.ch>
- > >matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- > >>No. Piracy is the result of ignorance and stupidity.
- > >In your opinion, maybe.
- >
- > I don't see what piracy has to do with ignorance and as for stupidity :
- > Why would you spend $1000 if you can get the same program for $2 ?
- > Sounds stupid to me !!
-
- It IS stupid. If nobody, or very few people, actualy buy the software,
- then they'll stop making the software. Sure, you can say "well, I can't
- afford to buy it anyway, so it doesn't make any difference" - but its still
- wrong, and illegal. And doing illegal things is, generaly, a stupid thing.
-
- I have a freind who practicaly thinks its his DUTY to pirate software,
- because he thinks it will send a message to the software makers that their
- stuff costs too much. Now THATS stupid. He just plain does not respect
- authority of any kind. He breaks any laws or rules he thinks are "stupid".
- And then gets pissed when he gets caught and punished (for instance, he got
- deleted from a BBS). Oh well, I am going off on a tangent here..
-
- - Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer -Given that the universe-
- ---------------------------------------------------is infinate, and god is-
- ------------ And the fat lady sings... ------------all powerful, would you-
- ---------------------------------------------------like some toast? -
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-
- --- Maximus 2.00
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