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From: foy@aerospace.aero.org (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software Priacy
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Date: 14 Jun 90 18:37:34 GMT
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In article <31594@ut-emx.UUCP| eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu (johan van Zanten) writes:
|
|   There's been alot of insightful discussion about piracy, but the simple
|reason that it exists is because copying a program is 
|physically completely different than stealing
|car radios.  (Aside: Most people who steal car stereos sell them for money.
....
|Perhaps the best solution for most software developers is to include digi
tized
|images of them, their staffs, and their dependents with their programs, 
|"guilting" people into doing what they think is right.
|
|	Johan van Zanten 	"Don't you threaten me with a dead fish."
|(eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu)	(from the movie "Withnail and I")

I agree that the motivation, and the attitude about copying software are 
different from stealing a piece of hardware. I suspect the attitudes are mor
more like peoples attitude about violating traffic. People it is morally 
OK because "I haven't really taken anything from anyone."

The apprehension rate for most crimes is too low for the fear of being ca
caught to be a big deterrent. I think that peoples internal moral values
more often prevents them from stealing things.

Thus if I ever get around to writing a saleable program I will incorporate
your idea of working on their morals being including a digitixed image.

     /|\
      |
The above opinions are all my own but they are freely distributable.

foy@aerospace.aero.org  (Richard Foy)