RE: Morality and Pirated Software

by "Martin Clifford" <MLC1(at)nrc.gov>

Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:33:36 -0400
To:	<scook(at)equibase.com>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>, <matthew(at)ohlman.com>, <webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com>
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>>> "Cook, Shelby" <scook(at)equibase.com> 07/23/02 08:23AM >>>

>>No, but you're missing the point. The value in the cookbook that was =
sold
was not in a single recipe, it was in the collection.  If you copied more
than a few recipies, or say, the whole book, then it is immoral, wrong and
illegal. You're not just sending a couple of lines of code, you're sending
the whole thing to someone else.<<

Using your continuation of the cookbook analogy, I'll just go out and by =
myself a copy of Macromedia Studio MX, indeed a collection.  I think I =
might just give my friend a copy of Dreamweaver MX, since it's only part =
of said collection.  Goodness knows I don't want to go and give him the =
entire studio... that would be immoral!  Phooey.

>>Have enough convictions in your beliefs to stand up for them.  Learn =
what is
right and wrong if you don't know and have the guts to say it!<<

I do.  I may get flamed for my beliefs, but I stand by them.

Martin Clifford
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