Re: Pirate PHP books online?

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On 28/07/07, tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >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
>
>
> It' a lost cause trying to get him to admit that it's stealing.
>
> But, I did just hear that same argument from a movie called "The
> Fifth Element" where the bad guy was claiming his bad deeds did just
> that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd

He's probably just trolling.

In any case I think that I remember the scene. Wasn't that just before
he double-timed his accomplices and gave them a booby-trapped weapon?
Lesson to be learned here, don't trust the immoral....

Dotan Cohen

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