On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Can we pirate copy of your bank, credit card and cell phone?
>
> Romanator
Took the words right out of my mouth Romanator,
Come on Goldenpi, if you are so committed to freedom and sharing of information,
cough up your details!
On a serious note though, we must remember that, although we are apart of
something very speacial, the linux and open source movement, not everyone is
as enlightened. However this does not mean we have to rip them off.
Bill Gates, at the end of the day, is a success. He does not seem to support
the open source movement but that is his right. Everyone has a right to follow
their own way of doing things,make a living and be a success. Just because
it doesn't fit in with our way of thinking does not mean we should think they
are wrong or believe ourselves clever because we rip them off by copying there
creations.
In other words, if you believe that your practises are in line with those of
fellow open sourcers, you have a lot to learn.
Concentrate more on learning how to create your own equivilant software than
spending time ripping off others. Or maybe is that the problem, you tried and
failed and so thought stuff you.
Andrew
> Goldenpi wrote: >
> > I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost
> > hundreds of pound. I do it for �1 + disk.
> >
> > Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies
> > of software in school and im not big enough to bother them.
> >
> > I am running a project to make manuals and books available for free over the
> > internet. www.carjam.ic24.net/james/index.html (or was it index.htm? Must
> > check). Currently there is very little. Just one good book, 3 junk books to
> > fill space and a few manuals. It would be easeier if my scanner hadn't
> > broke.
> >
> > Please donate any soft-copy manuals you have.
> > Sorry, no win2k manual.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows
> >
> > > In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list.
> > > >
> > >
> > > who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!!
> > > besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and
> > although
> > > ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth
> > > pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with
> > > the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how
> > you
> > > do things
