Thread: Is it okay for a student with limited financial resources to pirate software?
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-09-18 , 17:47
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Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
It all depends on your situation. why should some rich kid get his college paid for and have spending money and a car and all the best software to do his work...and you just want some software so you can at least compete academically.

to me it is nothing like stealing something like someones wallet.

to me it is only moral that you should have sufficient tools to compete on an even ground.
So Intel has billions of dollars more than AMD. It's only moral that AMD hires Intels engineers and steals Intels plans so that they can compete on an even ground.

So the US has billions of more dollars than <pick your emerging market of choice>. It's their moral obligation to steal from the US everything their technology so that they can compete on a global level with the US.

In the US there is a disparity between the races and communities so it is only right and fair and true that the poor should steal from the rich so that they can compete at the same level.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but life's a little unfair. Just because someone got the short end of the stick doesn't mean they're entitled to steal.

I'm not saying they don't need help, they do but stealing isn't the answer.