On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:26, Scharf Yuval wrote: > 0. Bull? Learn some manners, sir. > 1. VMware was developed by the company. It is not produced by them. > No one produces a software. > 2. I never said that it is free. It is not. > 3. It is NOT stolen!!! only a physical item can be stolen. > 4. If he can't pay the american price that they demand then they > are NOT deprived of income. > 5. He does have the right to own it. VMware must offer him a price relative to the > income in his country. > > Yuval >
[snip] 1. VMWare produces the the media that it is distributed on and the manuals that go with it. 2. Agreed. 3. Websters dictionary defines stealing thusly: "To take (the property of another) without right or permission." There is no distinction that what is stolen must have physical aspects. 4. True as long as you aren't stealing the product. Once you steal the product, you are depriving them of potential income. They have to raise prices to adjust for the losses from stolen copies. Therefore driving the price even higher. 5. So you believe that we all have the right to own whatever software we claim to want/need? VMWare bases the price of it's products on development and production costs and what the market will bear. It pays US developers in US dollars. How much development would get done if it paid the developers according to your plan? Not enough to keep them with the company, I bet. If you don't like the price of some commercial software, write your own open-source version or find a similar open-source project and help it out. Stealing software is not the answer. -- Alex Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
