Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:07:28 07/20/98
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On July 20, 1998 at 12:20:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 20, 1998 at 09:52:50, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>I am against piracy when it hurts individuals. I wouldn't pass a copy of Mchess, >>Hiarcs, Rebel, Fritz... On the other hand, I have 5 computers running and I >>won't get 5 copies of the same operating system. Is that a form of piracy? > >When you buy software you make an agreement with the software manufacturer. If >you then violate this agreement, I would think that this would be illegal, >right? Maybe illegal and right? :) >Does the agreement entitle you to install it on five computers? If so, >no problem, if not, then it's a problem. > >The argument that it is OK to burn a larger company is also made by people >stealing from large supermarket chains: "This company had a net income of $164 >million last quarter, so this piece of cheese is rightfully mine." > >http://sec.yahoo.com/e/l/s/swy.html Legal and moral or ethical are not necessarily the same. You seem to apply the equation legal=moral, illegal=amoral. I can name quite a few historical moments where just the opposite was true. Once again: to a large extent we are dealing with an issue that belongs to the personal sphere of decisions. For instance: I would feel bad about hurting Marty by copying Mchess. I do not feel bad when I use the same copy of an operating system in several machines, and not because it's made by a large corporation, but because it simply does not make any sense to me. We are asked as individuals to go by the book. Producers may be in practice entitled to deliver much less than promised. This kind of situation I see as unbalanced, and for the moment a way out of it is acting according to personal decisions. Enrique >bruce
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