Re: [NTLK] [k]racking ata-support

From: Richard Kilpatrick (dmc12_at_btconnect.com)
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 12:43:48 PDT


On 28 Aug 2004, at 20:18, Edmund Blackadder wrote:

> P.S. (Richard, i disagree on some topics with you with the piracy
> thing, but that is a different (OT) discussion)

Define piracy. I reckon installing the same app on all your computers
is fine - you can only use one at a time after all - but if you run a
company with many users, get a site license. If you want the software,
pay for it, or be a reviewer like me, but don't rip it off. If you
can't afford Photoshop CS, there's Elements. If you can't afford
Elements there's Paint Shop Pro. If you can't afford that there's The
GIMP, or second hand software from people upgrading (given the choice
and as long as it runs on my machine - generally not a worry for a PC
user - I'd choose Photoshop 5 over PSP or the GiMP any day).

There is no excuse for stealing software. If you don't want to pay the
asking price, vote with your wallet and buy a cheaper product -
encourage development and competition.

Can you imagine how thoroughly screwed many Newton users would be
without WaveLAN (I'm buying that next week, since I got a WiFi card to
work), or developments like eScale (which chokes on something on my
network, but whatever does work, I will pay for it if that is in the
terms of using it).

You're not a toddler. You can read and understand what terms go with
software, be it a £10 shareware package or a £1000 professional suite.
If you use the software, you agree to the terms. If you don't want, or
can't pay, then there are plenty of Open Source, free, compile yourself
or precompiled apps. Look at OpenOffice - even packaged and bundled
it's $29 in Japan, where it's apparently doing extremely well.

How can you justify stealing people's work? Even if they are large
corporations - that's how the system works. The only way to fight it is
to support Open Source, because by pirating the software all you do is
propagate the belief that people need that application to accomplish a
task.

I don't think it's that OT. Piracy presumably affects the Newton as
much as any other platform ultimately.

Richard

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