Sender: Bill W Smith Jr <•••@••.•••>
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> Sender: Nick Coffey <•••@••.•••>
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> I would like to organize some advocacy for the position that
> we should all boycott software manufacturers that prosecute
> copyright violations and license breach of contracts.
>
> The basic position is that the software provider should provide
> good enough support that anyone truly using the program would
> want to register.
This is an absurd position! I am a software developer and the type of
irresponsible lack of ethics you espouse is the kind of crap that takes
meat off my table! I spend many years and dollars developing my software
and I do not do it so that you can illegaly copy and distribute it at your
will! If such were the case, software development in this country would
cease on the professional level.
Get a clue.
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