Thanks for that Larry. I'm staying out of this because I'm a reseller of software. People other than the big corps. stand to lose to pirates. I think folks forget about us little guys trying to make a living whe they make moral judgments about piracy.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Photoshop CS Bargain Basement > > > Can we just call it what it is - stealing. If I make something I > am entitled > to charge whatever I want. You, on the other hand, are entitled > not to buy > it. It is not a function of what time and money went into the creation of > the object. It is a function of what I want to charge for it. > > If Fred Pollack spent thousands of dollars and weeks creating a miniature > painting and decides he wants $500 for it, that's fine. The > marketplace will > decide whether it's over-priced. If his cousin Jackson spends > 1/10 the time > and money and yet wants 100 times that for his effort, the > marketplace again > will decide. Fred may not sell his work, while Jackson might sell all he > cares to create. There is no problem here. > > To say the producer is charging too much for a product, therefore I am > entitled to steal, it is simply rationalization for why you want to steal > for your own gratification. To say that no one is getting hurt > when you copy > software and use it without buying a license is also rationalization for > ripping off someone. Just because the act of theft is easy, > doesn't make it > morally or legally right. > > You guys have hit one of my hot buttons. Thirty years of creating > software > will make you aware of just what goes into a product like > Photoshop CS. That > plus working at a company that was charging well over $1,000,000 > for for a > license to its (mainly my) software and yet was using bootleg copies of > WordPerfect and lifting lines of code from its competitor's > product has made > me very sensitive to this issue. > > Just because you want something, doesn't mean you're entitled to have it. > > Larry in Dallas > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.805 / Virus Database: 547 - Release Date: 12/5/2004 >
