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Subject: Ethical question

xvcoffee opened this issue on Mar 02, 2002 ยท 20 posts


xvcoffee posted Sat, 02 March 2002 at 2:35 AM

Person A has a product which is distributed commercially and purchased legit by everybody except for Bill whos computer cant run the product because Person A thinks he wont need to. Bill continually protests to Person A that he wants to be able to use the product but to deaf ears and to promises which are later broken.

Bill performs an alteration to his computer giving it wider compatibility but not so far as to be able to run Person As product. Steve, (not his real name), makes an alteration to Person As product which allows it to be run at last on Bills computer.

Person A continues the stand on not providing a version for Bill and fails to notice a dramatic scaling down in Bills campaign. Steve, (still not his real name), provides Bill with the newly altered software which Bill uses on his newly modified computer.

The success of the new article prompts Steve (please note this is not the real Steve) to commercially distribute it and retain the proceeds. This acquires the interest of a large number of people with the same computer and alteration as Bills who were not included in Person As original (and only) market research.

All of whom, courtesy of Bill, acquire and use the article for free.

The Question

Who of the above gets banned from Renderosity?