Re: vogons vs Users

["Quantum_Cat" <anonymous@cotse.com>]

Hiya, Bob!

 *>Anti-pirates  "You should find software in the used market 
or go without it"

Who are you quoting here?  Some straw man?

First, you've over-simplified it so much that it no longer 
makes a valid analogy.

There are hundreds of megabytes of legally released software, 
freeware and shareware out there for the Apple II.  You would 
not have to search very far to find legal means to fulfill 
your mythical task.

 *>If you follow your own opinions, the Bernie site would not 
offer ROM
 *>download from its site!  You should transfer the ROM image 
from your IIgs to
 *>your macintosh.

Well, you do have a point here.  It's NOT downloadable from 
the Bernie site per se (lordy!  I'm turning Rubyesque!), 
since the link points offsite and that site is down.

Now where is that newspaper?.. (*rolls it up to swat Bernie*)

 *>"its too hard, takes too much time".  Yeah, finding used 
software is hard to
 *>find and takes alot of time.  Big deal.

Again... WTF are you quoting?  And what's your point?  It 
seems to have evaporated.

 *>When it suits your purpose it is ok to pirate, but if 
others do it and you
 *>don't agreee with their purpose, it is not.

Bob.... It's -ILLEGAL- to pirate.  It's against the law.  The 
Copyright owner has rights protecting his property should he/
her choose to press the matter.

This straw man "you" have created would indeed be a pirate.  
As blatant and disgusting as your typical Turlette?  No.

 *>Downloading copyrighted software AND ROM images is 
illegal.  Pirates!

The light has come on?  You haven't fallen for RosyWanker's 
Lie?  Cool!

But if you think us vogons are going to cringe while you 
pound on your little straw man, you have another thing to 
think about.

Copying ROMS from machines you don't own is illegal.  But to 
equate a one time download with the blatant and unrepentant 
distribution of hundreds of megs of commercial software is 
quite a long stretch.  But you Turlettes have lots of 
practice stretching the truth.  ;)

 *>Bob

Vogons For a Turlette Free Apple II Community!

Quantum_Cat