Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!mks From: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Software theives (FLAME ON!!) Message-ID: <7732@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 89 11:32:20 GMT References: <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6846@rpi.edu> <21818@cos.com> Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 75 In article <21818@cos.com> andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick) writes: >In article <6846@rpi.edu>, kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: >> In article <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes: > >> [about people coming in and installing viruses, stealing actual disks, >> copying disks in-store, killing freely-redistributable stuff, etc] > >> (Some people might think this to be a shift in attitudes coming from >> me. Most people probably don't care one way or the other. But, I >> consider actually lifting product from the shelves to be a crime. I >> don't consider, say, an employee taking a piece of software home, >> copying it, bringing it back and re-shelving it with new labels and >> all to be a crime in the slightest.) > >> Robert Jude Kudla >> Pi-Rho America \\ /// Blah >> 2346 15th St. \\ /// >> Troy, NY 12180 /X\ \\\/// keywords: mike oldfield yes u2 r.e.m. new order >> (518)271-8624 // \\ \XX/ steely dan f.g.t.h. kate bush .....and even Rush > >====== ANGRY FLAME STARTS HERE! ======= > >Thanks, I will keep your name and address on file so I can circulate it with >the lists of known and/or admitted SOFTWARE THIEVES which several developers I >know maintain! Stealing is stealing! If you take the original from the store >and do not return it, that is stealing. (I assume this is why you return the >original to the store.) By copying the original, you are ILLEGALY DUPLICATING >COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL! YOU ARE STEALING! YOU ARE A SLIMY, LUMP OF BILE-RIDDEN >EXCREMENT WHO SHOULD BE LOCKED AWAY WITH THE WORST REFUSE OF HUMANITY! I HOPE >YOUR BOSS FINDS OUT ABOUT YOUR LITTLE PILFERING PROJECT AND HAS YOU LOCKED UP. >I AM TEMPTED TO REPORT YOU TO THE NY STATE POLICE AND THE FBI AND ASK THEM TO >INVESTIGATE YOU BASED UPON YOUR PUBLIC ADMISSION (reprinted above). > >I FOR ONE WILL *NEVER* PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM Pi-Rho America, Nor will I sell >or allow to be sold to you any of my products. Should it *EVER* come to my >attention that your company has sold one of my products I will take great >pleasure in seeing you and your company dragged through the courts and prosecuted! > >I call upon all CSA readers to boycott your company and any products or services >it produces. This kind of blatant irresponsibility on the part of people like >yourself cannot be tolerated. Slime like you should be locked up! > >I don't like you! > >I urge everyone who reads this to mail a request to the postmaster at >pawl.rpi.edu (whose address is: usenet@rpi.edu) to have your login >canceled or, at least, your USENET privaleges revoked. You are a >stinking theif! You are publicly advocating theft! You break the >law and urge others to break the law; you should be locked up! I am in agreement! (And I thought this flame should be seen again too!) Well said. I know that MKSoft Development now has this slim on my list. C= will too, as soon as I can find out where such a list is kept. > >(FLAME OFF!) >Toodles. >ARS. > >-- >- Andrew R. Scholnick @ Corp. for Open Systems, McLean, VA -- andrews@cos.com >- {uunet, sundc, decuac}!cos!andrews -- Everything I write blame on me, NOT >-- my employer. - "Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of >-- chance and wait for the pointer to stop." - M. Leinster (First Contact) --- And C= is completely befuddled by any of my postings... They are mine. --- /----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | /// Michael Sinz -- CATS/Amiga Software/Support Engineer | | /// PHONE 215-431-9422 UUCP ( uunet | rutgers ) !cbmvax!mks | | /// | |\\\/// ...and then, just as all was in kaos, someone said: | | \XX/ "Let there be ... what was that!? ... An Amiga? ... light!" | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/