> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Thom Durfee
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 18:21
> To: Wayne
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Pay for XP twice...
>
>
> Wayne,
>
> Simply put, Microsoft has figured out how to do
> what has always been the thing that should have
> been done all along.
>
> A copy of software is like a book. You cannot
> read the same book in two or more places at the
> same time without owning multiple copies of the
> book.
YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG HERE.
With a book you CAN brign it to another room and read it. WIth a book you
can lend it to antoher to read. I oppose piracy. I think usoft should
lighten up on the ome user.
AGAIN, this is NOT like a book, not by a longshot.
GET OFF OF YOUR HIGH HORSE.
>
> Software works exactly the same way. To do it any
> other way (like putting the same OS on multiple
> computers with a single disk) is what they call
> software piracy. That includes Writelog as well.
>
> Software developers spend thousands of hours
> developing the stuff we use everyday and for the
> most part people steal their work by putting
> multiple copies of the same disk on diferent PC's.
> That is wrong and should not be done.
>
> Hope this explains it.
>
> 73
>
> Thom WI8W
>
>
>
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