Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Software thieves Message-ID: <6904@rpi.edu> Date: 23 Aug 89 22:07:58 GMT References: <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6846@rpi.edu> <2361@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com> <6865@rpi.edu> <58013@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <6876@rpi.edu> <1160@sas.UUCP> <11682@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <387@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Followup-To: alt.flame Distribution: usa Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 42 In-reply-to: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu's message of 23 Aug 89 16:45:07 GMT In article <387@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson) writes: [confused rambling about morality and time and effort and blah blah blah] Moral people respect these rights; pirates do not. What makes your morality, which says that you can be happy by preventing your work from being had by certain people (a very large number) better than my morality, which says that you can be happy by taking whatever you want as long as no one else goes without it? I'm really curious. Where have you gotten this divine information from that says you're allowed to consider your own morality absolute? I certainly don't consider mine as such, and resent that you seem to consider yours as such. In reality if I made a program public in some way, either commercial or PD, I would expect that my requests as to it distribution would be violated to some degree. However, there is something seriously wrong with someone who believes that violating my rights as an author is moral. People with an ability for self delusion as great as this are dangerous. This is the same ability for self delusion that brought us such atrocities as the concentration camps of Nazi germany or slavery in the USA. I'll get of my soap box now. Huh? They pirated software in Nazi Germany? I don't understand how taking something and duplicating it exactly is akin to murder. Quite the opposite, in fact. >Disclaimer: I am totally irresponsible. So shoot me then! Not you but perhaps Kudla or those of his ilk. A ha, so now we're advocating murder, are we? Now who's the cretinous misfit? Further, once again I remind you that these are my *opinions*, not my *actions*, that we are discussing. good day. -- Robert Jude Kudla Pi-Rho America \\ /// Boy, am I glad I don't have a phone 2346 15th St. \\ /// with a working bell. 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