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 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
