Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!tekbspa!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <715@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 22:32:00 GMT
References: <555@icus.islp.ny.us. <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM. <1334@leah.Albany.Edu. <142@usl-pc.usl.edu.
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In article <142@usl-pc.usl.edu., jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee) writes:
. In message <1343@leah.Albany.Edu., jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) says:
. .In article <5769@thorin.cs.unc.edu., bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes:
. .Wait a second! So what you're saying is that its okay to pirate stuff if
. .you can't afford to buy it? That's insane! Can I steal your car  because
. .I can't afford one myself?
. 
. Specious analogy. If I steal your car, you can no longer use it. If I
. "steal" your computer program, by copying it, you can still use it.
. In other words, you haven't been deprived of your property etc.
. 
. An interesting moral question (in places outside the U.S., where, as
. Reagan always tells us, there is no poverty):

False.  No such claim has been made.  The Meese Commission didn't even
claim that there was no hunger -- just that hunger exists in pockets
largely because of failures to let people know where to go.

. If your family starving, is it right to steal in order to feed them?

Sure.  But someone who has a computer to run software on isn't starving.
And I'm hard pressed to see how a floppy disk is going to fill an
empty belly.

. Eric Lee Green                            P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509


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Clayton E. Cramer
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