I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying; "Those who are good at stealing should do so?'
"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, defraud, cheat steal and on the side, teach gym?" Abbie Hoffman was selling himself and activism, not stealing the hard work of others, and was so happy with his life he later committed suicide. You can be like him at any time.
Not respecting copyrights has damaged this community far worse the the Gould betrayal of Tramiel and Commodore.
So time to take a stand: Be an adult and act like one, or be like an adolescent acting out in an attempt to prove you can give the finger to the rest of the world.
Well, actually since stealing seems all the fashion in business and in politics, yes that actually is what I'm saying.
You don't actually think that guy was the source for any of the information in that book do you?
If that is a valid business model I'm going to go out and start collecting technical info that I have no part in producing, organize it and re-sell it.
Get over yourself.
If this was a significant issue all the author would have to do is issue take down notices to the servers this stuff is hosted on.
And, btw, are you going to start pretending now that big services like youtube aren't chock full of other people's creative property?
You know, when I was growing up, it used to be completely legal to make a copy of a album (say on cassette) so you could use it in a different device.
So legal, that my local library used to loan out copies they made.
Now that's illegal.
Frankly, somewhere along in our country's history personal freedoms and got tangled up with some poorly thought out ideas about property rights.
And it was not greatly to anyone's benefit.
Do not preach to me son, about growing up. For one thing I'm probably old enough to be your father.
And for another, I remember when young people had more sense than to run around like little Alex P. Keaton clones pulling there hair out going "Oh my God, you're violating the law".
Personally, while I don't smoke pot anymore, people like you make me want to light up a joint and then put it out in your eye.
And yes moderators, that statement IS meant to offend.
Because, sometimes it isn't reasonable to expect someone to respond politely when they have a
punk questioning their maturity.
Edit - Ah, screw it. I'm putting myself in the time out corner.
You guys are beginning to get on my last nerve.
You know I can not presume to talk for them, but I think the people that left, did so because there are a significant number of idiots in the remaining community.
And there are time like this, when just being exposed to this kind of trite rubbish makes me feel like the exposure to it is making me dumber through its very contact.
So, to the more pathogenic of you, I bid goodnight.
