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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44023)	6/12/2001 3:05:51 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:<At least you acknowledge that pirating is theft, and you don't pretend to be doing the software publishers a favor by pirating.> It's not a theft if it's for maintaining your knowledge on SW evolution. It's ridiculous to pay for Office if you write 2 or 3 letters per years using Office. Many SW are priced for commercial-environment usage. About Asian wild spread pirating, Bill Gate ever said it's not important; what's important is they chose MS products in pirating... Pirate are the most credible marketing tool for SW builder. I can swear you that I have gave my OK to some SW buying to business relation, those buying representing a lot more $ than what I would have bought myself if pirating was not possible. And in no way I would recommend a SW I haven't tried. HW and SW are highly related. If pirating was not possible, how many less AMD or Intel computers would have been sold? etc etc ... Gottfried

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44023)	6/12/2001 4:06:45 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

Tenchu, it seems to me there are degrees of theft, like there are of murder. SW theft is so widespread and it has such a distributed good that I think the SA does not go after individuals. They go after companies. My retail store sticks to the letter of the law on sales as we have a MSFT office closeby and it is other stores that tell on you if you make copies, just like we tell on them. People are always trying. We sell a lot of used Dell and CPQ desktops and as you know they come with win95/98. We actually got a letter from MSFT about selling a system with a preload on it. We sent them back a letter of defiance and also told them we sell new ones with nothing or a purchased OS, used ones we sell with whatever OS they rode in on as the inference is the seller to us is innocent until proven guilty. Beeen almost 2 years now, so it worked. A business cannot take a chance, a retail store is even more susceptable to raids etc., as competitors soon rat you out. Bill