Re: Quit Whining About Piracy

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From: rich... Richard Hartman
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00

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Excuse me? Microsoft DESERVES to have their software pirated?  Why is
that? Because they worked hard and were succesful? Come on! Give us
all a break!

Alexander Hvostov <shvo...@accesscom.com> wrote:

>Hi...
>
>Just think of effortlessly cloning a BMW.  By doing that, you have 
>basically software piracy. (except it's a lot harder to cover up =)
>
>Now, if the original owner of said BMW still has it, than that owner is 
>unhurt, pirate gains, and companies stay the same.  After all, the pirate 
>would never have bought the BMW instead of cloning it, because cloning it 
>is a lot harder to do than buy it. (it is with warez anyway...)
>
>And quite frankly I think big companies like Microshit deserve it.  
>Still, they are actually unaffected. (even with pirated copies of Windows 
>95 -- it's with Linux is for, people...)
>
>Alex
>

Technology is man's way of making up for God's mistakes.

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From: rich...@mindspring.com (Richard Hartman)
Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
Date: 1997/07/28
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