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TiagoTiago is offline TiagoTiago
2011-01-28 , 04:39
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post

So, you don't want to give "Microsoft", the big company, money for their office suite. It's too expensive. Tell me, when you pirate it, how are you giving back to the engineers that get paid to code the program? When you pirate Photoshop, how are you supporting the secretary that arranges the lunch and learn sessions the engineers are going to, to learn new skills and get ideas for new tools? You're not.
I use OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Gimp

Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
I bet you'd agree numbers can be stolen if the numbers were coming out of your bank account. You don't mind if I take those numbers, right? They're just numbers... They can't be stolen.
If i have 123 dollars in my account, and then someone deposits or withdraws enough money on their account so they also got $123 in their account, that isn't stealing; if a department store sticks a pricetag on a product that says it costs $123, i still would have 123 dollars in my account, no stealing there either. Now if someone withdraws the money from my bank account without my authorization, you could call that stealing, but what they stole wasn't a number, what they stole was money. No one owns the number 123, same with any other number no matter how big.


Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Are you ok with someone using your car for a long trip when you're not using it, as long as they provide gas?
what this has to do with anything?


Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
And tell me, how exactly are you "providing materials" when you take someone's program (without paying for it) and run it?
You've paid for the machinery, and you've paid for the electricity etc.
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