[plug] Re: "stealing"?

[Harry McNally]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:42:25 +0800 Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net> wrote:

> On Friday 15 November 2002 12:38 pm, Russell wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:20:40AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> And to call a shovel a shovel, you don't support stealing AKA piracy,
> >> including by providing platforms which encourage the practice.
> 
> > Hmmm.  You're not really talking about shovels.  Nor stealing, nor
> > piracy.  I think you mean copyright infringement.  :)
> 
> Copyright infringement == stealing. They way that the copyright itself was 
> obtained or is enforced may also be fraudulent - or effectively so - but that 
> doesn't make copying things for which you have no right to copy any less 
> stealing.

I'm glad for your post Leon. I'm using Linux because I elected not to keep paying Microsoft on the "it'll be better in the next upgrade" income methods. But I stopped paying which meant "paying and using". I remember a person with a computer bristling with all things Microsoft proudly telling me they've never paid for a Microsoft product in their life. Whoopee. It's not hard to steal the stuff.

To extend Leon's analogy, may I suggest that the agreed use of a shovel doesn't cease because you're digging in a different hole. Still digging a hole for yourself. :-P

cu
Harry

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