Re: [aclug-L] question

[JOHNSTONE JEREMY S <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 alx@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Wesley Simon wrote:
> 
> > I'm not aware of anyone's position on cracks, hacks and warez, but I
> > believe that in order to mature, the group should adopt some
> > zero-tolerance attitudes of such behavior.  I used to think it was cool,
> 
> My position, personally, is that all software should be free for
> educational purposes.  I'm not into the warez scene anymore but when I was
> a kid in high school, it was the only way I had to get software.  As a
> result, I had skills right out of high school that most people don't get
> without spending thousands of dollars on training.  It was because of the
> warez bbses that I knew more about the computer classes than the teachers
> did in high school.  At that time books and warez were my most valuable
> source of education.
> 
> The only thing this doesn't apply to, for me anyway, is games which are
> purely for entertainment value only.  
> 

I personally believe that the above person is right, when I was in high
school, although my parents were relayively rich, I had to get any
software that I used through whatever means possible, including warez.
This is also were I learned a lot of what I now know. Personally I believe
that lmost all software should be relatively free, atleast not cost the
hundreds, and thousands of dollars that some companies what to charge. On
a side note, although I personally borrow other people code occasionally I
always give credit to the source, I feel that it is MORALLY, ETHICALLY,
and should be ILLEGALLY wrong to pleajurise. It is something I can not
tolerate is someone who did NOTHING but ants to take credit for
everything.

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