Author: Uri Blass
Date: 17:52:09 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 20:14:08, Roger Brown wrote: > >>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. > > > >Hello Uri, > >This is incredible. I really cannot believe that you are seriously proposing >this as a way forward. So if the majority of is want something that is a reason >for us to get it - despite what the author may have thought or wished? I think that the author is one person and the people who are interested in rybka are many people. from moral point of view the wish of the public is more important in case that there is no law that say what to do. > >Y'know, I have witnessed this trend of thought in a number of posts here and >elsewhere and it is sad. I can point to the releases of Fruit, Ruffian and >Rybka. Do you notice any similarities? the similiarity is that both Ruffian and Fruit was free for download and became commercial. > > >> >>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. > > >It was also clear that a majority believed that the Earth was flat, that the >Earth was the centre of the Solar System and that this Solar System was the >entire knowable universe. > >What the majority has to do with what is right - except their capacity to >enforce that will through acting in concert no matter how incorrect that action >is - is beyond me. This is different because here we do not talk about facts that humans do not decide but about rules that humans decide. I think that what is legal and illegal should be clear to most people. You can see from the discussions here that a lot assumed that it is legal to share rybka with other people. rules that most people do not know about them only can help to make lawyers happy and it could be easy to make clear that it is not legal to send rybka by agreement that you need to sign of not sending rybka to other people before you download it. Uri
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