Phantast opened this issue on Dec 10, 2001 ยท 11 posts
Strangechilde posted Mon, 10 December 2001 at 10:16 PM
Agree wholly, Famine. Pirates are clever. Hackers are smart. If you've any combination of the two you'll know where to get your software kicks for free, and that's always going to be the case, just like it'll always be true that bullies get elected to public offices and morons get hired for civil service positions. I know I may incur wrath for saying this but there are some instances where I don't particularly mind a little bit of 'sharing'... for example, if Microsoft patents and restricts the technology that makes it possible for me to read work circulars (HOW HARD WOULD IT BE to include a Word reader plugin to IE? How hard? Arrgh!), and then denies me student prices because I don't fit their profile, well, dang. Monopolies have to suffer that. (For the record: the ONLY Microsoft product currenty on my computer is IE: I taught my colleages how to save as RTF, and I use AppleWorks, and they have to deal). But artists that's a different story. A lot of love went into Michael, and there's no way I'd want to pirate that. I like the idea that there are people whose job it is to create these models, and I think these people ought to be supported. And if folks want to go lookin for Warez versions, they deserve what they get.