Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:03:13 12/10/05
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On December 10, 2005 at 08:48:07, Albert Silver wrote: <snipped> >>No >>I did not say that I support doing something against the law. >> >>Uri > >True, but there is a suggested inferrence merely by the nature of the >possibilities you mention. For example, you don't list the more ethical >possibilities. Instead, you write along the lines of: > >- It's possible that he could sell a hundred programs, >- It's possible 1 million copies will be stolen, >- It's possible he will complain about his author rights >- It's possible that the world would be better without author rights >- Obviously leading to it's possible the world would be better if he had no >rights over his program > >The fact that you add "it's possible" in front of the dozen statements doesn't >change anything. This is actually covered in basic courses on logic BTW. > >Imagine instead if I were to write a post saying: > >- It's possible Uri is a dishonest person >- It's possible he wants to sabotage Rybka and the author >- It's possible he is redistributing Rybka via other channels (website, P2P, >etc.) >- It's possible he is also trying to decompile it to understand the code to >steal Vasik's ideas >- It's possible he would add these ideas to his program and then take credit for >them. >- It's possible ... etc. > >Note that I do not believe any of the above 'possibilities', but adding 'it's >possible" all the time wouldn't change the fact that I was effectively >mudslinging (deliberately trying to dirty your name). > > Albert I did not talk about specific person but about hypotetical case when there is no authors rights. Claiming that it is possible that piracy can help programmers is not blaming authors about something and what driven this discussion were the following words: "If that thinking was adopted as a general philosophy (which I know you have not said), have you considered what sort of world it would swiftly produce?" see http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?468545 This leaded to discussion about hypotetical case of no author rights because author rights prevent many people to use a program when most of them are not going to buy it so you can claim that the demage to the author from no author rights is smaller than the advantage of the users and when I think about it I am not sure that there is always a demage to the author. There is a problem that people cannot compare between what happens and what does not happen so it is impossible to prove that the theory that author rights do not help the authors in some cases is not correct. You of course can say that you believe that it is not correct(I expressed no opinion except saying that I do not know) but there is no way to prove something about it so I think that it can be the end of this discussion. Uri
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