Re: Think About It

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4t6odb$jv6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Derek Taubert <taubert@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>In <4t6dg0$ffk@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Will Baguhn wrote:
>> Personally, I'm inclined to think that developers shouldn't care too much
>> so long as their stuff isn't copied... and the people who have stopped 
>making
>> money on it at all shouldn't care at all.  Obviously, you have a different
>> opinion, as you still sell some of the things that exist on Asimov.
>
>This attitude simply repulses me.  I suppose you advocate that we shouldn't 
>care too much if other people are starving or being oppressed as long as it 
>isn't happening to us.  How selfish can you possibly be?  It is extremely 
>naive to think that pirates will selectively not copy the work of a single 
>individual verses any other developer.
>
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I can't vouch for other "pirates", but I certainly don't copy software
that's still for sale.
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