On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:52:49 -0800, mac davis wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:29:34 -0500, jaime wrote:

I can understand how you feel but there are many people out there who
cannot afford the high costs of many of these software programs.

Then one is free to do without them. Isn't choice wonderful?

Bill Gates has made *billions* off of people for software it probably
cost him less to manufacture then what he retails it for.

Of course it does. He also has developers and lawyers to pay, and they
have families to feed.

so, using that rationalization, it's ok to steal from him?

That's the thing. As much as I disrespect, loathe, detest, and
dislike Bill Gates, I won't steal from him. Couple reasons, but even
back when I _was_ using Windows, I wouldn't steal from him.

I find that in way too many cases, morals are defined as fear of getting
caught..

Yes, and people who don't care about ethics always have a way to
justify stealing what they want. Some of us here make our living
in the software industry, and take that sort of thing kind of personally...