Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <10287@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 May 89 02:42:48 GMT
References: <113300063@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <113300063@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
-     Accepting a pirated copy of some piece of software doesn't make you
-an indecent human being, it only reflects your opinion: whether the
-designer's deserve the cost of the software, whether your $49.95 really
-makes a difference to the sum, etc., etc..

It's a moral/ethical question.  By my standards people who steal from
others are immoral/unethical, i.e. indecent.