So that's how you react when you're cornered?
Hehe, very mature. In case you didn't notice almost everyone is this thread have destroyed your pretty meaningless arguments one after another, I'm not alone in this. And of course, given that most of what I said is in the gnu manifesto, happy to have your opinion on the movement.
No. I have been thinking that since I first started posting. When you commented on my posting quality I told you why it was so. Sides, you opened the gate on personal attacks as opposed to attacks on the theory.
Actually, I have had very low respect for you for quite a while, but it has taken quite a nose dive recently.
Why don't you go out and take a deep breath?
Why would I?
You're right. You also can't assume that it's not zero, or that it isn't negative.
Well... Not really. But I have been because that is the much more logical conclusion and I have not seen numbers ether way.
Please don't misrepresent what people say. I specifically mentioned that this happens and also specifically mentioned that I'm not defending piracy in general. How many times do I have to say that?
To be fair, I am arguing with like three or four people here and you all keep saying the same things. It is quite hard to keep you guys apart.
Yes, presumably he really thinks that free software exists in the world in which we live. ¯\(°_o)/¯
I was more talking about the fact he implied that there is no production costs. (Which might be what you mean here as well) but I needed to say that is a great emoticon.
In principle, I agree. In practice, it's sometimes difficult to find out if you'd really like something before actually experiencing it, and if one pirates a game with the foreknowledge that they'll buy it if they like it, then absolutely no harm is done (and some good is done) to the company selling it. Obviously, that only works if the person sticks to their principles.
This is indeed quite true... But I seriously think most people do not stick to these principles.
You're consistently putting forth very little effort into understanding what other people mean.
Eh. Sometimes I try to cut though the bullshit to something new cause we are going around in circles here. Of course no one wants that.
Also I am quite tired as I said. So yeah, I am not putting much effort into this.
Again, I'm not saying "piracy is good" or that piracy is a net benefit to any industry; that is a completely different argument. I'm saying that you cannot compare "stealing" information with stealing a car or a carton of eggs. This is why the law actually makes a distinction between them.
Both are illegal though. I can indeed draw that line as I have. I do not see the issue when the end result is the same.
BTW, in case the glib wording of my previus reply was lost on anybody, what I was saying is that the idea of stealing money that somebody does not yet have, and will not have because of your actons only makes sense if you ignore all distinctions between past, present, and future (and even then I think there may be a grandfather paradox in there somewhere).
So you are saying that, when you do something illegal that ends up making it so that some one has less money, it is not stealing because they do not have that money and ownership of money transends time
and it was your manifest DESTINY to own that money.
Replace gibberish with a real reason cause I could not find anything in your post.