Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:14:21 07/22/98
I said i was not going to write about this anymore, but temptation to get an understanding in trhis issue is too high. So let me say that the core of Hyatt and Moreland -an other people- is a fallacy called petitio principi. They insist once and again with the example of stealing 1 dollar against stealing 1000 and they say it is the same thing. Of course it is so because from the beginning they are defined both acts as stealing and they are, of course. No reasonning is neccesary to recognize that. What they does not understand is that what I am saying is that we cannot so simply qualify as steal a simple copy for a friend, to put it...simple. At least this is something that must be discussed BEFORE saying it is stealing. You say it is because "the box says you cannot". Yes, but I am not so readily prepared to recognize as fair, just and moral anything putted in a box, even if behind it there is a corpus of law to support it. Obviously every people in this world look for protect his interest in the strongest way they can, using law if possible, but that does not means is moral. I have live many years in a country where a dictatorship imposed many laws and I can ensure you they were not very moral. All the history of economy in every country is full of examples of monopolies that has got a law to support his claims to exclusive trade of a comodity. Were fair claims? If I don't remember wrongly, part of the history of US independence grew from the resistence to a commercial monopoly fully supported by law. So, the pretension of a software producer not to allow even a copy of his product, not even for your second computer or so, is just a pretension than can have the support of law, but not neccesarily of moral. Maybe to give a program or receive one is not a moral action in itself, something to sheer, but neither is neccesary the contrary. Finally, I don't remember I had said I am beginning a campaing to support stealing or so, as Bruce and Bob insist to say. They are stuck with the conect and word stealing and they just refuses to see beyond the cardboard bo Fernando.
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