On 28/07/07, Larry Garfield <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If "indirectly affecting the market so that prices change" counts as stealing, > then Coke and Pepsi build their business models around stealing from each > other. > > Apache/PHP/MySQL are then "stealing actual money" from Microsoft, because they > reduces sales of Windows, IIS, Visual Studio, and MS SQL Server. > > Great, so that means we should shut down Pepsi to stop them from stealing from > Coke, and shut down PHP to stop them from stealing from Microsoft! > > I would say that shows just what pathetically laughable bullshit that argument > is, except that Microsoft has made it publicly before, albeit phrased > as "defending capitalism". You see why I find it so offensive? > Ah, so you are saying that by pirating software/books/music you are creating market competition, which drives the producers to produce higher quality content at affordable prices. I feel so stupid that I didn't see it that way from the beginning. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
