Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!jac423 From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies) Message-ID: <1350@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 18:36:20 GMT References: <555@icus.islp.ny.us> <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1334@leah.Albany.Edu> <39@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 20 In article <39@microsoft.UUCP>, w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes: > Stealing a car [...] deprives the (former) owner > of the use of the car. Copying (whether of a car or a program) doesn't. > It only deprives the copyright holder of revenue. If you could tell that > a person was not going to purchase something, there is no harm in them having > a copy. Of course, in this world, it's hard to tell. Still, I think I > can safely say that the copy of WordPerfect I have for the Amiga (used once, > hated it, now collecting dust until I need another floppy for Fish Disks) > isn't depriving WP corp. of any revenue. So the car analogy was pretty awful. :-) Grrrr... There are many people who pirate stuff even though they COULD afford it. Didn't someone recently say how businesses and schools pirate stuff as well? There is NO way to rationalize pirating! You may do it, but don't say that its okay! -- What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek nuclear fusion? I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@rachel.albany.edu