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Robert Fahey wrote:

> In article <01bca19a$6ca59e00$8fc82299@blair_nt>, Blair Brewer
> <Bl...@ApproSystems.com> writes
> >So I guess what your saying is that if FORD(no offense to FORDs, I
> own two)
> > cars were shitty, you would condone stealing them.....   ??????

Stealing them? How can he do that? If I borrowed a friends Ford, and
didnt consider it worth paying for, made a copy of the Ford from the
original one I borrowed, and then gave it back to him, would you
consider that stealing? And yes I do realise that it a darn sight easier
to copy a program than copy a Ford, but the idea is still roughly the
same. I borrow a game, I play the game (for a while). If I consider the
game good value, I buy it. I must have "pirated" hundreds of games and
various applications over the years. Most Ive thrown out after a week.
Those I keep, I pay for. Namely Win95, Quake, Office, and a few other
bits and pieces I use a lot. But I am NOT going to pay just to have a
look at a program and decide I dont like it. That's what shareware is,
and most "pirating" is like illegal sharewaring. OK, I accept that it is
illegal, but it's not as if I am "costing" them sales. I wouldnt have
bought it anyway.

> I sure
> >hope your an orphan, cause I'd hate to know that there was people out
> there
> >raising people like you with those morales. Wrong is Wrong no matter
> if you
> >don't completly agree or not. Try to have some dignity about
> yourself. It's
> >bad enough that you steal, but you sound as if your proud of it. I
> agree
> >that all software is not the greatest, but I feel that by putting out
> the
> >demos like most companies do, that there is no reason why anyone has
> to buy
> >something that they don't get to try first. And if the software is
> 'shitty'
> >as you put it, then why the hell are you stealing it..... Obviously,
> your
> >just a kid, cause your not intelligent enough to have thought this
> >statement out....... I do wish you the best of luck though, cause
> with your
> >attitude, you'll need it.