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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:15:07 -0800 (PST)
> To: [email protected]
> From: holist <[email protected]>
You should consider subscribing through one of the normal CDR nodes, the
toad.com site is unreliable.
> come to expect to find people who may not be "mannered intellectuals", but
> who are certainly not erstwhile defenders of intellectual property,
> particularly asthe concept is applied to software today.
Now just exactly what makes you believe that I want other people deciding
what happens to the results of my labor?
I support Open Source software, however not to the extent I want somebody
else to decide without my input whether any given piece happens to Open
Source.
> requests for warez on these lists, but moral outrage at the thought of
> software piracy was not one I expected to read here.
Then perhaps you need to work on your morality.
> Especially as I hear nobody complaining about the advertisement for
> pornography
So what? How exactly does pornography map to stolen software?
> Unlike most of you lucky people in the States, I pay through the nose for
> on-line time.
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
> Perhaps priorities could do with rethinking.
I agree, you need to do some rethinking.
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