On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 01:24, alpha wrote:
And piracy is stealing.
This is a very bad thing to say.
First of all, please avoid using the word piracy, you are not about killing people, assaulting ships, destroying physical goods. You are just making a copy that cost nothing and does not harm anyone.
Same is for stealing. To steal is to subtract a physical good so that someone miss something.
If you get my laptop, that's stealing, as I will not be able to use it anymore, but if you copy the software that's on it, that's not stealing, as I will not missing anything.
Nonetheless making unauthorized copies is illegal, I'm not promoting in any way the usage of unathorized copied software, nor non-free nor free.
Simo.