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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Software Leasing
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 14:19:45 GMT
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In article <3fsn33$nnr@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Ran Talbott <rant@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <D2nwnz.76A@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes: 
>
>[Much self-serving rationalization,  and needlessly re-quoted stuff,  deleted]
>
>>Humans have always been the most successful
>>when they cooperated and did each other the favors as they could
>
>But that "cooperation" has always been based on the expectation that the
>recipients of those "favors" will reciprocate in kind.  Since you've gone on
>to state that you endorse essentially any sort of thievery,  as long as it's
>"successful",  you've opted out of that social contract,  and forfeited
>any expectation of the cooperation and "favors" that come with it.
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You're mistaking idealizations from school for reality again. If what you
say is true, we'd have disk-box police who would search everyone's software
for piracy periodically. The world doesn't run ideally and can't afford to.
If it really DID disenfranchise the small user from his software copy, they
would be forced to replace it tomorrow by either government grant or an
extreme drop in the price of software and food and rent to covber THAT cost
shift in all our budgets and especially the budgets of "students" formally
or informally. And they'd probably have to give greater tax breaks to small
business to afford it as well. what you don't grasp is that things work
however they HAVE to work to make sure everything necessary gets done! But
reactionaries are perpetual babes in the woods about their precious and
adolescent idealism about property and work! In reality, their ideal world
doesn't and has never existed. It is a "told by an idiot".
-Steve

>As a matter of self-defense,  anyone of whom you ask a "favor" from now
>on has to assume that there's a risk you'll use any information or help
>they give you to rip them off.
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By no means. In some ways reality accidentally seems to be close to the
model. And my desires are honest and understandable, IF you're not a
priggish moralist avoiding reality at all costs!
-Steve

>In other words,  you've shot yourself in the foot.  Don't be too surprised
>if the doctor demands cash up front for treating it...
>Ran
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I've never been asked for cash up front from a doctor in my life! That's
not the way the system works! Doctors charge a lot because some people
CAN'T pay them, and they write that off! They get to keep the money though
because the doctors and the government have a non-ideal incestuous
agreement about how it all works! Very damned little follows "ideal"
economics or morality, in anything we do!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

