On Thursday 24 December 2009 17:38:37 Praveen A wrote: > 2009/12/24 jtd <[email protected]>: > > It is illegal. Period. I cant see how robbing someone is valid > > from any perspective. This is not confined to the OS. There will > > be every conceivable software - all illegal. > > robbing? I think that is the kind of propaganda the likes of > Microsoft and US media companies want to employ. We don't have to > go that level, I think. Saying not legal, not authorized ... should > be enough.
In the context of users defending their use of pirated software when superior alternatives are easily available? I fully understand my statement and reiterate that it is plain old robbery. It is not as if the guy was dying because his iv drip would stall without the software. If i purchased a legal copy and installed on more than one machine, which i never use simultaneously, then i would agree with your statement. I did a survey afair in 2003 of approx 100 businesses, mostly small and medium. 100% of them use some pirated software or the other. A miniscule percentage uses legal OS. A few decimal places more use upto two business critical packages with single user licences (but invariably installed on multiple machines). This was not counting individual employees installing everything they could lay their hands on. > > > The arguments are based on the utterly despicable premise of > > copyright violation, which perpetuates a vicious system that > > rewards the wrong doers and severely penalises those who dont > > have access to computers, as well as FLOSS users. > > I would consider copyright violation less of an problem than > refusing to share with friends. Ya. Especially somebody else's stuff obtained illegally. You and I dont decide. It's the owner of the copyrighted works who decides. On a wider social plane it is the acceptance of individual rights as paramount over other gangs like state, party, religious groups, business etc. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
