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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 15:04:25 UTC 2007
Tin Tin wrote:
>> The law is still the law .. in some countries avg users dont care
>> about piracy, they just want to use it .. does that mean piracy is
>> okay??? no its not ..
>
> "Piracy" is not a good word to use. "Unauthorized copies" might be better.
>
> I still remember hearing rms once talking about "the only thing worse
> than using an unathorized copy is to use the original copy, because
> the company is directly benefiting from it!"
He has an odd opinion of companies that create nice things that you can
choose to purchase. The real problems are monopolies and
anti-competitive practices where there can be no competition to enhance
the value and variety of these choices.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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