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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Software Leasing
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 19:05:52 GMT
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In article <D2v44H.JL2@newbridge.com>,
Bert Robbins <brobbins@newbridge.com> wrote:
>Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: In article <D2pJBy.13n@newbridge.com>,
>: Bert Robbins <brobbins@newbridge.com> wrote:
>: >Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: >: In article <3fjk9b$1q8@booz.bah.com>,  <pole@sartre.ads.com> wrote:
>: >: >
>: >: >In article <D2Lv28.JsB@armory.com>, <rstevew@armory.com> writes:
>: >: >> Naw! This post above is just a commercialization of the net! He should have
>: >: >> his butt kicked. If *I* need some software for a short time, *I* just STEAL
>: >: >> it, and I recommend that others do too!!! You can just about find anything
>: >: >> among my circle of friends!!!
>: >: >> -Steve Walz  rstevew@armory.com
>: >: >> 
>: >: >
>: >: >I find it amazing that you consider "commercialization of the net"
>: >: >to be evil, and the person should be punished, but you recommend
>: >: >robbery as a morally superior activity. When you steal software
>: >: >you are not ripping off some mythical money manager, you are 
>: >: >stealing the jobs of the engineers who should be paid for their
>: >: >labors. Most of the cost of commercial software (that's stuff you're
>: >: >..excuse me one is supposed to pay for) is in labor. Labor means
>: >: >money paid to people.
>: >: >
>: >: >The government put a small fortune into starting the internet, 
>: >: >they are not going to continue paying for it.
>: >: >The net is not free, anyone who thinks it is is very naive; 
>: >: >and its users and uses change daily. Deal with it.
>: >: ---------------------------------------------------
>: >: Software is overpriced because we are supposed to steal it. That is true
>: >: because the rate of infrastructure upgrade in this country relies on
>: >: computer-folk learning to use the new stuff on their OWN TIME and THEN
>: >: being a ready source of talent for industry and government! I didn't MAKE
>: >: it that way, but it IS that way!!! They overprice it to rip each other off
>: >: as much as the market will bear, (corporations). They never intended the
>: >: poor computer-folk, who could NEVER afford it, not have access to it, and
>: >: it would mean the death of over two thirds of all small start-up companies
>: >: to go fishing in their disk boxes for pirated stuff. Thus, because the
>: >: nation would colllapse without it, the laws about copyright with respect to
>: >: software are impossible and even undesirable in this country and others, to
>: >: even TRY to enforce!!! NOW! Shithead! *YOU DEAL WITH IT!!!* NOBODY is being
>: >: deprived of income, because LESS of their software would be purchased and
>: >: NOT MORE if they enforced their so-called ownership!!! NOBODY would fucking
>: >: know how to use it and it would never get even recommended to LOSER
>: >: managers and ownership!!! What you, in your yuppified glow of greed fail to
>: >: see clearly, is that you are being short-sighted and ignoring the existent
>: >: situation we all live in which has arisen due to market necessity!!!
>: >
>: >: There is not JUST something warm and fuzzy about the net hackerism re:
>: >: "The Free Access To Information". Humans have always been the most successful
>: >: when they cooperated and did each other the favors as they could, and have
>: >: always *FUCKED* themselves/everybody in the ASS when they DIDN"T!!!! The
>: >: market forces have spoken, in their wisdom, that it is both UNWORTHWHILE
>: >: *AND a *BAD THING* (tm) to interfere with low income software piracy!!! 
>: >: It's time for *YOU* idiots to get into congruence with the "Market Forces"
>: >: you seem to worship!!! If you want a fucking swimming pool, go dig one!
>: >: -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com
>: >
>: >Steve,
>: >
>: >I would like you to come over to my house and write some software, do
>: >some yard work and paint the house. As for how much I'm going to pay
>: >you well forget it your time isn't worth anything.
>: >
>: >If I have a problem with my plumbing and can't fix it myself I call
>: >a plumber. If I don't pay the plumber he will put a mechanic's lein
>: >on my house and will eventually get paid when I sell the house.
>: >
>: >Software isn't free, never has been and never will be. Software placed
>: >in the public domain, free, is great and a decision was made by the 
>: >people who developed it not to charge money for it. But, if my 
>: >primary source of income, corporation or contractor, is developing
>: >software then I expect to get paid for my labor and if I don't get
>: >paid for my labor then my labor is going to stop.
>: >
>: >Stealing, no matter how it is justified, is still stealing and it
>: >is a crime morally and legally.
>: >
>: >Next time I'm in your neck of the woods and need a car I think I'll
>: >just take yours. As long as you are not using it I might as well
>: >get some use out of it.
>: >Bert Robbins                             Newbridge Networks Inc.
>: >brobbins@newbridge.com                   593 Herndon Pwky
>: ---------------------------------------
>: Bert: I said that market forces are at work here, and thus they are and you
>: DO get paid what you get paid, and plumbers get to sit on house liens, and
>: I get paid what I do FOR what I do! And you don't get to steal cars because
>: it disrupts market forces, at least not unless you are very good at it and
>: recycle the parts through Mexico! Parts would be a lot more expensive for
>: some models without successful car theft rings! And thus they survive!
>: Likewise, the people who couldn't afford to pay for your software anyway
>: get it for nothing and you aren't really out one dime, because they don't
>: have it to pay you anyway! Your argument is the simpleton's argument for
>: "law and order" despite the consquences!! It has always sounded stupid, has
>: been told to go home and sit on its thumb when it got too uppity, and is
>: what makes you think police are as stupid as we pay them to be!!! And so
>: they ARE!!! We make laws of convenience, out of convenience, not to please
>: your primitive naive sense of "right and wrong"! Grow up! Honestly!! Such
>: insipid naivete' hasn't been seen in a long time, at least since the
>: freshman started the fall term!!!! I'm surprised people needed to tell you
>: these things! This is a nation of laws, not of either men/women OR ideals!
>: Don't tell me you hadn't figured out that ideal theories are the ones which
>: are NEVER NEVER implemented!!! Nothing would work at ALL!!! Been reading
>: too much idealised fiction again, eh? The truth is much more down and
>: dirty, and things work the way the have to work! That's why YOU get to pay
>: for other people's medical bills when you don't vote to pay taxes for far
>: cheaper medical insurance for them that would shorten their hospital stay!
>: It's quite simply because THINGS WORK THE WAY THEY HAVE TO WORK NO BLOODY
>: FUCKING MATTER WHO YOU VOTED FOR YOU NAIVE CONSERVATIVE PRIG!!!:) If you
>: don't understand the principle in upper case, then you really ARE slow!
>: -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com
>
>I guess we should repeal all of the laws about stealing and let market
>forces take over.
>
>Let the market drive itself, a conservative view, coming from someone
>who dosen't agree with conservative thinking. I thought the liberals
>wanted to controll the "free" markets not the conservatives?
>
>--
>Bert Robbins                             Newbridge Networks Inc.
>brobbins@newbridge.com                   593 Herndon Pwky
>703 708-5949                             Herndon, VA 22070


