Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:08:47 07/20/98
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On July 19, 1998 at 20:30:43, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 19, 1998 at 13:50:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>To say of insinuate that a guy >>that receives an old software given to him as a gift is Always a kind of burgler >>is something that goes beyond common sense. When you are a guy -as I am- that >>expend hundreds of dollars each year supporting this industry , then to become a >>thief because I have got -yes, I did, prepare your fire platoon, sir- one >>program for free, from a dear friends of mine that, as me, expend a lot of >>money, seems to me to be sheer nonsense. > >This is an interesting argument. Do you really expect that you could go down to >the grocery store and tell them that because you had actually paid for your >groceries for the past week or month or year or whatever, that you have the >right to walk out of the store without paying this time? > >You will have the cops following you for sure if you do this. > >The only way someone will make this argument in any normal circumstance is under >their breath as they walk out of the store with the thing under their coat. All this is a lousy analogy. What you steal from a grocery shop can not be sold to a customer and the owner is hurt. Copying a program you don’t find interesting enough to buy or you want to check before buying damages no one. That’s what shareware is all about. >I don't see why you are upset at me for telling you that you are rationalizing. >This is very obviously what you are doing. I don’t think Fernando is rationalizing. The issue of being honest/dishonest is complex and to a great extent personal, in computer chess and anywhere else. About honesty in CC: it is true that pirating may damage producers, and to this extent I am against it. On the other hand, why talking only about the dishonesty of pirates and not about the marketing impositions of releasing a new version every year, no matter if it’s an improvement or not, buggy or not. Buying a new program is often like buying a sealed book. And do you really believe manufacturers never get or pass pirated copies of someone else's programs, operating systems, whole collections of games? I am certainly not advocating piracy, but these issues are personal and complex enough to avoid rigid morals holier than Thou. Enrique >bruce
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