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Subject: Re: Most of the programs are pirated copies

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:14:05 07/20/98

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On July 20, 1998 at 13:07:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>Once again: to a large extent we are dealing with an issue that belongs to the
>personal sphere of decisions. For instance: I would feel bad about hurting Marty
>by copying Mchess. I do not feel bad when I use the same copy of an operating
>system in several machines, and not because it's made by a large corporation,
>but because it simply does not make any sense to me.

I can't accept that it is a valid "personal" decision to decide which companies
to steal from.

So now we have self-enrichment as a valid form of social protest.

>We are asked as individuals to go by the book. Producers may be in practice
>entitled to deliver much less than promised. This kind of situation I see as
>unbalanced, and for the moment a way out of it is acting according to personal
>decisions.

Awful.

bruce



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