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- From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:30:14 GMT
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- marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
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- >>For myself, I see most of the champions of the pirating and
- >>non-pirating as self righteous pigs. What is legal does not
- >>have anything to do with what is moral, and indeed is often
- >>opposed to what is moral.
-
- >Yes, what is legal doesn't have anything to do with what is moral,
- >and vice versa, but don't say that most things that are legal
- >are imoral. Brushing your teeth isn't illegal, and it isn't
- >imoral. Software piracy is illegal, and it is immoral.
-
- I didn't. Please re-read.
-
- >OK, let's say you've built a wooden table and a few chairs,
- >which you have in your garden. The next night, someone comes
- >and steal the outdoor furniture. That's not a moral thing to do,
- >right? It's about the same thing when stealing software, the
- >programmer has put blood, sweat and tears into his work, and
- >perhaps he wants to have something back for that? So, it IS
- >immoral to steal his software.
-
- Well, it just so happens that I agree that stealing outdoor
- furniture is immoral. Also, I appreciate all of the work that
- a software developer puts into his/her product. But does that
- obligate me to buy it? Let us just say, for example, that I
- never use the product. Should I buy it just because some
- fellow has worked hard on it? Of course not. I can attest to
- the fact that I would use very little software if I had to
- pay for it. The price of the software compared the the price
- I'm willing (and able) to pay is much greater than unity.
-
- So, if I would under no circumstances buy the software, and I
- have already shown that just because a product is good a person
- cannot be forced to buy it, then what damage am I doing? None,
- provided I don't spread it to others who ARE potential buyers.
-
- Like I've said before, it is impossible to compare software with
- other irreproduceble products. Music is an excellent example
- which I gave in my original posting, yet why did you choose to
- switch to outdoor furniture? That's apples and oranges.
-
- Scotty AJ
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- Scotty A. Johnson "The beast with the four foot tail." Iguana@uiuc.edu
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