Re: a2 dead? read this.

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Tue, 09 Jun 1998 19:36:46 GMT, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
wrote:

|>   There is no trust of the blatant thieves and pirates, who lie
|>continually and egregiously about the illegality of what they do, who
|>lie about what they've done 

never heard the term "honor among thieves"?  <g>

|>("4D" sound should tell you that certain
|>people are clinincally insane and should never be trusted again-- but
|>P.T. Barnum was right), 

will you EVER lay off this?  (1) i have no idea what the heck you're
talking about.  (2) i DON'T WANT TO KNOW!  (3) who CARES?!?  so far,
YOU are the only one that cares about this subject, so LAY OFF
ALREADY!

|>there is no trust of pirate sites that place
|>copyrighted comemrcial software up *BEFORE* asking the author for
|>permission. 

TRUST?  what does TRUST have to do with it?  as for whether or not
permission should be granted before posting a program, i agree that it
SHOULD be granted before putting it where everyone grabs it.  of
course, then we should try asking the author(s) to consider assigning
their software to the realm of SHAREWARE, as was just suggested.  this
way, the author can still get his money and the general populace can
determine whether or not they want to shell money out for a program
that certainly does NOT require a P166 or better....  <g>

|>   The blame lies strictly on the pirates that people are going to
|>have to make explicitly clear are NOT welcome. You do not make peace
|>with thieves looking to backstab you later-- any more than you make
|>friends with a cancer or a disease looking to eat you alive. 

if that's the way you look at life, buddy, you best go find a cave in
the Himalayas.  there's NOBODY that's perfect in this world, INCLUDING
YOU.  everybody does something that somebody else says is illegal, no
matter if it's as blatant as giving away or selling copies of software
without the permission of the author.

---
William Smith
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