Author: Peter Klausler
Date: 09:35:20 07/21/98
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On July 20, 1998 at 13:40:55, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >The example I gave before: I am sure many of us use the same operating system >running on several computers. How many of us bought a copy of this operating >system for every computer we have? I guess few of us or even no one. Does this >make thieves (your expression) out of all of us? 1) You can't justify your theft by claiming that it's common. 2) All of my software is legal. I'm not a thief. 3) Stealing chess software is particularly crass in the face of so much useful freeware for chess. A chess software thief can't even use the lame argument that he can't afford the software that he "needs". Download Crafty, Winboard, and CDB and quit whining. 4) Nobody needs to play chess. One might argue that stealing food to feed a starving child is justifiable, but stealing software to support a hobby is without any excuse. 5) If there's something you want your computer to do, and you can't afford to buy the software that does it, get a free compiler and write it yourself. If you can't do that, learn how. Besides being criminal, software theft is a sign of laziness. Violation of a software license is theft, plain and simple and no more justifiable than theft of computer hardware. Run freeware or write it if you can't buy what you want. And have some more respect for those of us who create this stuff.
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