Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!coil!manning From: manning@coil.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 15:40:34 GMT References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 19 I think one reason people make illegal copies of software is that it doesn't seem as much like stealing. If I steal my friend's car, he will no longer have one. But he's likely to just give me a copy of the new version of windows. And he still has his. Of course there is an injured party, but like tax evasion or copyright infringement you don't really know the victim. Me? I'm pretty honest, but I'm not above an occasional test-drive. (Gimpel PC-Lint just passed the test drive - legal copy is on order.) -- Evan *************************************************************************** Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT for so | Evan M. Manning long. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is | is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The |manning@gap.cco.caltech.edu opinions stated above are yours. You cannot | manning@mars.jpl.nasa.gov imagine why you ever felt otherwise. | gleeper@tybalt.caltech.edu