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Re: Re: Re: Software piracy- what would you do?by shotgunefx (Parson) |
on Jun 05, 2001 at 04:50 UTC ( [id://85674]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi Randal, I agree, stealing is stealing. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it. I just think it brings up some interesting issues. In all honesty, when I started getting serious about programming, I was a kid. I used cracked copies of software and when things started actually working out, (ie I turned a buck), I "legitimized" all my software. At the time I couldn't afford it and it was exactly how I justified it. Hell, my development machine, a Pantera Pentium 66 (Step 0) set me back $5,000 and that pretty much ate up my $5.50 an hour (How times change!). -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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