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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Software Leasing
Organization: The Armory
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:02:22 GMT
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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.
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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

