Xref: utzoo alt.security:1325 alt.folklore.computers:4631 comp.society.futures:1950 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!crackers!m2c!wpi!dmorin From: dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu (Duane D Morin) Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers,comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime Message-ID: <14467@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 14:51:45 GMT References: <26581@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <14443@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu (Duane D Morin) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA Lines: 30 In article tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes: > >This must come as quite a surprise to the moderators of the various >comp.sources groups. I wonder what all that stuff in my archives is... > > ...tad Oh, do you happen to have WordPerfect, MS Word, Microsoft Windows, or the newest five Sierra games? If you dont, Im sure I can find a bulletin board (that CHARGES for time), that does. FOR EVERYONE THAT IS SENDING ME VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF WHERE I SCREWED UP: I fully support the people that do in fact encourage the hacker ethic. I see one more letter with the word GNU in it Ill scream. What I would rather here people talk about is what they think of the people who do NOT adhere to such ethics, which is what I understood the original post to mean. I am most definitely pessimistic about computer ethics today, and I hope that people can understand why. I cant honestly believe that everyone who is flaming me thinks that there is NO piracy in the world, or that there is so little that it does not need to be considered? People seem to be focusing on one or the other, but no one has compared them both yet. If someone can tell me that there are 10 times as many GNU supporters as pirates (and document it), I will consider that a useful post. But everyone who tries to claim that all free software is distributed through comp.sources is generalizing just as bad as I did. Have fun with that. DDM