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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