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To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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At 06:33 PM 3/14/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>He encourages other people to share. 

He encourages other people to steal.

>He provides a license they can
>use to share their software. 

He provides a license which is designed to destroy programmers'
livelihoods by NOT sharing it with them -- while at the same time
making it free to their customers. This is a predatory practice
no more ethical than what Microsoft did to Netscape.

>If this is advocating theft, so is what
>publishers do. Only the call it "selling".

It appears that you wish to justify stealing by calling 
the victim a thief... without justification. Nor would two
wrongs make a right in any case.

--Brett Glass


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