On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Puneet Lakhina wrote: [snip] > Moreover since I work in the software business, supporting piracy would be > a disservice to my own profession and its profits.
This is the key. It has nothing to do with profits, but of plain respect. Even if you are an open source programmer, you expect others to respect your licenses. So whether or not you like the terms under which someone else has licensed their software, it is their right to license it as they see fit, and you are free not to purchase it. -Taj. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
