Christian: Leaving aside your assumptions, some of which are wrong about my activity, get off your high horse. You have no authority to arbitrate morality in my universe. OTOH, if you want to say that it's just "your opinion" that it's wrong, that's fine, but so what? What possible bearing does it have on the discussion? I asked an objective question, unrelated to your personal morals.
Harry hit it on the head with his three categories, in fact, both sets of his categories. OTOH, whether or not I should have even raised the issue on this list--given the number of other questions about Entourage X on this list--strikes me as largely irrelevant, but a point on which folks can genuinely disagree. Greg P.S. FWIW, I was loaned a PB to use with Office X on it [actually swapped with my PB]; at first, it had Xb15, and then it was loaned to me again with X GM over the weekend. Why did this happen? The person who loaned it to me--who is apparently authorized to have the software--knows that I work in a nearly entirely PC company. He has consulted for my company before. When I joined the company about 4 years ago, I brought my Mac to work. For a year and a half, it was the only Mac; now however, there are 10 Mac users in this company of about 300, including a completely "Mac-ified" marketing department [with two dual processor G4 desktops, PB G4, iBook, etc.]. My CFO came to me for advice on what to buy his daughters this past week; I recommended Mac, and Office X was a huge selling point. So, now do you feel better? Maybe, maybe not. Personally, I do not care. I sleep just fine at night. ------------------------- On 11/19/01 8:03 PM, Christian M. M. Brady was willing to say outloud: > On 11/17/01 6:35 PM, "Greg Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> P.S. FWIW, I have ordered four copies of Office X for me and members of my >> team at work, and I expect to order my upgrade directly from MS when they >> make it available, so that my wife has her own, licensed, copy. I pay for my >> software, when the author makes it possible for me to do so. Or, as in the >> case of MS, I have actually paid for it ahead of time. > > That still does not make your using a pirated piece of software acceptable. > It is wrong morally, if not legally. > > Cb > cbrady @ tulane.edu -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
