Re: Re: Pirate PHP books online?

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At 7:57 PM -0500 7/16/07, Larry Garfield wrote:
I am not going to defend copyright infringement, but theft is depriving
someone of something they used to have and no longer have.

Time.

An author spends his time writing a book, he should be paid for it.

Time.

You spend time coding, and you should be paid for it.

Anyone who takes your work product without compensating you for your TIME is stealing, period!

And who is to say how much it is worth and how much you should be paid? Should you make millions like the author of Harry Potter or nothing like a significant percentage of authors do? You want to pay everyone minimum wage, or is there a scale somewhere that would suffice, I think not.

One of the reason why authors publish (books, software, music, whatever) is that they may make a considerable amount of money from their efforts -- AND -- what wrong with that? That helps drive creativity and innovation and raises the quality of life for everyone. You want to defend taking that away?

Larry, I like your post and consider what you have to say seriously, but you're slant on this is just plain wrong.

Cheers,

tedd
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