Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:49:38 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 19:31:30, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 09, 2005 at 15:46:55, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Let's suppose that there is no law against it. >> >>It is clearly against the author's wishes. >> >>For that reason alone, it should not be posted without permission. > >I do not think that this reason is good enough. > >Not giving it to people is clearly against the wish of a lot of people who are >interested in getting it. > >The only reason not to do it is that it is possible that the law forbid it and >if that is the law then it is a bad law because a law should be clear and it is >clear that a lot of people believe that it is legal to share something that they >downloaded from the internet withut agreeing to restrictions. > >I think that authors should expect people who download a program to share it so >if they do not like it they should not give it to people except limited team of >beta testers that they trust. This means that we cannot and should not be trusted. In other words, authors should only release encrypted and time limited copies of things because we cannot be trusted to follow agreements without some sort of physical thing that prevents us from breaking it. That is very sad.
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