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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Keywords: copy protection piracy
Message-ID: <471@white.gcm>
Date: 16 May 88 01:03:04 GMT
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Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <362@cf-cm.UUCP> mch@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Major Kano) writes:
.   "I really need it, and though I should like, from a fair-play viewpoint, to
.    pay for it, the people who wrote it are greedy so-and-so's and are
.    charging 200% more than the product is actually worth."
.
.
.   In other words, the s/w writers are * PROFITEERING *.
.
.   This seems to me to be a crushing indictment of s/w writers, but it is the
.most common reason for s/w copying that I have heard of. In most cases, I would
.agree with it.


It is amazing that the Major is able to talk about the problem with profits
in one sentence and than in the next talk about stealing products that are
too expensive.  This is what you get from a society where profits are
bad.  It is not more fairness and concern for others instead it is theft
and lawlessness.

You do not pay for something from a fair play perspective. This is very
important, instead you pay to transfer ownership of something that belongs
to someone else.

Socialists have little need for property rights and consequently individual
rights.  Theft is what they understand.

-- 
Dave Caswell
Greenwich Capital Markets                      uunet!philabs!gcm!dc
If it could mean something, I wouldn't have posted about it! -- Brian Case