from the pirate cockroach

[rmtmaine <rmtmaine@texhoma.net>]

Nathan Mates wrote:

>    Consider this: "First they came to pirate the ancient stuff. But I
> always wanted a copy, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for more
> recent stuff. But I felt guilty and couldn't bear to redeem myself and

> stop them. Then they pirated currently developed software.  But they'd

> silenced any opposition, and I was too afraid to finally speak
> out. Then there was nothing left to pirate, and all I could find was a

> barren landscape and vultures"
>
>    A basket of Apples freshpicked off a tree can be quickly spoiled
> by the presence of a rotten one. Similarly the rotten apples of
> society can quickly permeate a healthy community of Apple computers.
>
>    The rocks have been disturbed, and the cockroaches of piracy
> are running around and demanding legitimacy. Push them back under
> whatever festering pile of rubble they emerged from until they
> learn to behave themselves.

 
Nathan, if your rhetoric ever meets reality let me know.

I'm just a cockroach of piracy crawling out from under a festering pile
of rubble to feast on the dead carcass of an apple2.

jeffrey

rmtmaine@texhoma.net