Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:01:36 07/18/98
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Hi: No, I don't believe they are asking us if we steal or not; they asked how much stolen programs are, independently of our behaviour. Besides, this is a far more complex issue than hust to be an honest guy or to be a thief. It is not the case you purchase it or you get it wit a gun. There is a middle, intermediate area where you are not a thief neither a customer. Many times happens that you get a pirated progrtam that was copied by the first time a lot time ago and it is not even a competitor in the market and I think in that case to qualify as a thief the guy that accept it would too much. If somebody send me a pirated copy of, let us say, sargon V, I will take it gladly I and will not feel I am a thief. And then there is the case of a friend that purchase a current program and then decides to give you one copy of it. Are you a thief if you accept the gift? And vice versa? How many times a program can be copied before the guy who eeceives it begint to be a thief? are you one of them if you are the fourth guy benefited by the generosity of a friend? Shuld we ask a guarantee of this to our friends? I suppose there are certain limits, but I am not sure where to put them in the great ground between purchasing all and copying abd or receiving all. fernando
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