On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:49:17 -0400, Ed Tanton wrote:
>people who would never remotely
>consider taking a penny on a tabletop that wasn't theirs, seem to think
>nothing of software piracy. It totally escapes me.
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All my software is bought and paid for, but I understand the
point of the "pirates" too. In their view, they are not taking
something, they are making a copy of something.
If you had a physical object - anything at all - and you went out
in your workshop and made a duplicate from scratch, leaving the
original intact, have you "stolen" something? Most people would
say no. Agree or not agree, that is how the pirates think. It
seems to be one of those things like politics and religion where
everyone has their own belief and they're not about to change.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
73, Bill W7TI
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