Re: Net piracy?

[dkl@crl.com (David K. Leikam)]

In article <30g137$bqt@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
James L Brookes <jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>In article <30fidi$bvt@crl4.crl.com>, David K. Leikam <dkl@crl.com> wrote:
>
>>   Tempting to observe that if some of the folk hereabouts wrote code 
>>they way they write messages, none of it would ever work, viz;
>>
>>  fprint() and fprintf() are NOT the same thing, nor are they "close 
>>enough", despite their similarities. Where you need one, you shouldn't 
>>use the other -- unless you're an expert and know what/why you're doing it.
>>
>>  Just so, theft and copyright violation are NOT the same thing, nor are 
>>they "close enough".
>
>If analogies were plants, yours would be skunkweed.

  One of the really GOOD things about this discussion? There are so many 
people more interested in light, than in the usual heat...

>>  It's an uphill battle just getting the terms into real-world 
>>definition, let alone moving on to demonstrate anything.
>
>I can see why, if that's a typical example of your thought process.
>-- 

  (gratuitous insult here, to further the understanding of all)


  Do you debug programs, the way you post? When you get an answer you 
don't expect and don't understand, blame the moral values of the 
computer? I bet it doesn't work too well.