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>>>>> On 11 Dec 92 03:46:53 GMT, aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) said:
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> In <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:

> However, this reason for prohibiting stealing applies in  no  way
> to  software.  If  someone  copies  my  disk,  I  still  have the
> original. I neither have to spend a significant  amount  of  time
> without  my program, nor do I have to spend any money for getting
> another disk.
But they are stealing from the true owners of the software, the people
who wrote it. If you check your software (assuming any of its original)
you'll probably find a licensing agreement on it, which you agreed to
when you bought the software. And before we come out with the line about
"Pirating only hurts the software companies, not the programmers, so
that's why I do it", lets ask some of these programmers whether or not
they'd like to give you a pat on the back for ripping of their work.

> flow is a severe problem of software property. It is absurd  that
> a  programmer  writes  software so people can use it, and then he
> has to prevent most people from using it in order to turn it into
> money.
Can someone send a copy of this thread to Richard Stallman? I'm sure
he'd be thrilled to see what people are using the ideals of the Gnu 
project to justify. Not.

Kev