Alister Strangley in my experiance it is not (2). Piracy is considered a 'victimless' crime by many and I have had people skite to me ho they have pirated software (and they know what I do for a living)
The most effective arguement to someone who runs a company is the ethical one, ask them if they consider themselves ethical (and these people do) because they 'intend' to legalise their software its just there is no impetus to do so Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alister Christie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Follow Up To Last Post About Software | I find this discussion rather interesting. I can think of two main | reasons for not pirating software, | | (1) its not ethical | (2) getting caught, fined etc... | | While I think the first reason is probably the best (everyone behaving | ethically), I suspect that the second reason is why most people would | move from pirating software to buying legal versions. | | Alister Christie | Computers for People | Phone: 04 471 1849 / Fax: 04 471 1266 | PO Box 13085 | Johnsonville | Wellington | _______________________________________________ | Offtopic mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic | | | _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
