| Subject: | Re: Rounded corners
| | Date: | Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:19:42 -0000
| | From: | "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com>
| | Newsgroups: | alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.computer.workshop,alt.macintosh,comp.os.apple,comp.sys.apple
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:28:23 -0000, Bill <nonegiven@att.net> wrote:
> On 3/21/2022 1:25 PM, Joel wrote:
>> "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:01:30 -0000, rabidR04CH <rabid@r04.ch> wrote:
>>>> On 2022-03-21 12:56 p.m., Joel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a lot of pirated music on my computer. But I am no longer
>>>>> adding more pirated content to my collection. But software isn't
>>>>> really the same thing, anyway. Software isn't just an audiovisual
>>>>> stream, it's a tool, constructed painstakingly by a programmer. It is
>>>>> essentially theft to use pirated software.
>>>>
>>>> I follow the same ethical code. I generally won't use anything pirated
>>>> and during the times that I couldn't afford something, would find free
>>>> alternatives.
>>>
>>> How does using a pirated version cost them any money if your only other choice
is to use something else? Either way they get no money from you.
>>
>>
>> You can say that all you want, but it doesn't really make logical
>> sense. You are rationalizing your theft.
>>
>
> You should go to help Ukraine, where your efforts to make things right
> will really make a difference.
Hopefully Putin bombs him.
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