home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!stealth!jmauric
- From: jmauric@eng.clemson.edu (John Maurice)
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.194352.17247@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu (news)
- Reply-To: jmauric@eng.clemson.edu
- Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
- References: <XcL9TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:43:52 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- In article XcL9TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us, rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy) writes:
- >marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- >
- >> OK, let's say you've built a wooden table and a few chairs,
- >> which you have in your garden. The next night, someone comes
- >> and steal the outdoor furniture. That's not a moral thing to do,
- >> right? It's about the same thing when stealing software, the
- >> programmer has put blood, sweat and tears into his work, and
- >> perhaps he wants to have something back for that? So, it IS
- >> immoral to steal his software.
- >> (It is hard to make an example, as other things than software
- >> usually can't be copied the way software can.)
- >
-
- piracy isnt quite what you said. lets say you did build a wooden table
- and a few chairs. a pirate comes along and makes a copy of the table
- and chairs for himself. the pirate never takes your table and chairs.
- and why might he do that? well perhaps its because you charged
- him 1 million dollars for a chair and it only cost you 2 hours to
- make it. oh.. and by the way.. im a programmer so dont tell me its
- blood, sweat and tears. thats BS.
-
- ---
-
- --John
-
- ============================================================================
- Reply to JMAURIC@ENG.CLEMSON.EDU | 300 Rippleview Dr.
- Phone: 803-653-3893 | Clemson, SC 29631
- ============================================================================
-
-