Re: Steve Mentzer: Pirate. You are no longer welcome.

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Paul Francis Gilbert (pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:

: When I first read your article, it was with great scepticism. Frankly, your
: posts normally seem to fanatical for my liking. [witness your attempts to
: have asimov closed down]. After having read your article, I wasn't so sure.
: If you were correct, this Steve does seem to be a "bad" guy

: However, having just read his reply article,I've cancelled my original post,
: because he does raise a good point. Don't take this the wrong way, but you
: are being, well lets say "high strung" to keep things nice. I'm willing to
: listen to anyone, and the points he raises (ie. the stuff about baits for
: "you and your cronies" were his words), are at least as valid as yours.

: The whole point is, that you do seem to project an image of one who goes off
: half strung in fits of self-righteousness. I'd urge you to at least 
: investigate things fully... download files to ensure that they are what they
: claim, at least ATTEMPT TO TALK TO THE GUY TO MAKE SURE IT"S HIM THATS DOING
: IT.

: I'd urge everyone to read Steve's reply, and not not just kill-file him on
: the basis of Nathan's first article. But on the side, I agree that that //GS
: software that's being sold shouldn't be pirated,and that serious //GS pirate
: sites should be shutdown.

This is my opinion, too. If someone really wants to annoy the Vogons with a
pirate site, he may offer some fake programs on the net and have a good
laugh at the ranting and ravings of the bureaucrats... :D

But the fun ends when someone offers REAL new programs on the net. If the
archive named Convert3200.shk contains really Convert3200, this person
hurts honest programmers and vendors and should be prosecuted.

This is no more fun, folks... :(

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