================================================ Subject: Re: Excel registries and changing favorite Creed song (Weathered album) From: "Joe Earles" To: Date: Mon 11 Feb 2002 00:01:10 -0500 ================================================ Which part of that was "wrong", Debbi? Out of everyone here I'd have to say you're usually not the one I'd expect to be at a loss for words so a little elaboration would be appreciated.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbi" To: Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song (Weathered album) > WRONG > > But try again. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Creed Discussion List [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On > Behalf Of Joe Earles > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:56 PM > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song > (Weathered album) > > > I'm not of the "two wrongs somehow make a right" mindset, but I'd love > for someone to explain to me where the right is in me buying a piece of > software, taking it home and installing it on my machine and being > precluded from making too many changes or upgrades to my hardware or > else I have to pay for it again. > > That pretty well describes the XP Home edition. If you swap out your > mainboard, hard drive, NIC and CPU guess what... BillyBob decides you > have a new PC and you get to pay to install XP again! Now if the > motivation behind that isn't greed I don't know what it is. Why, pray > tell, am I restricted from upgrading my system if I want to keep my OS? > Now granted the possibility of THE AVERAGE END USER making that many > changes to one system is next to zip, but the chances of a certified PC > technician trying out new stuff just for kicks is feasible. The notion > of that same tech having several PCs is also feasible. Now I have to pay > for the OS four times to run it on each machine on my home LAN? Look, > if I do the right thing even when I know that I can get the product for > nothing that ought to afford me the right to do with it whatever I > please, so long as no one else is benefiting from it. To spin it around > to an argument that holds water here, let's say you go out and buy a > copy of Weathered. It plays fine on your PC, but if you want to play it > on your stereo's CD player you have to send Wind-Up records $15 > more...and if you want to play it in the car, again you send them $15 > for the privilege. Would that piss anyone but me off just a little? > Sure, you can make the argument that the software companies suffer when > you pirate their stuff. All right. That argument has to hold *some* > merit, of course, but I can't help but realize that there are scores > upon scores of pirate copies of the earlier (9x/Me/NT/2K) operating > systems out there and Bill Gates continues to be one of the richest men > if not still THE richest man on planet earth. Simply put, he doesn't > have to worry about people pirating software because he'll never have > the time to spend all the money he has now. The motivation behind the > one user, one license thing is nothing more than greed and that, as far > as I'm concerned, is on the same level as the one who pirates the > software. Are the software developers worthy to make profits for their > effort? Absolutely. But once they have my money, what business is it of > theirs what I do with the product? This question and the lack of a > logical and forthright answer is the biggest motivation behind software > piracy. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbi" > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:23 PM > Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song > (Weathered > album) > > > > Doesn't make it right. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Creed Discussion List [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On > > Behalf Of Tim Johnson > > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:22 PM > > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > > Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song > > (Weathered album) > > > > > > Yeah i know but it's kinda like i don't care cause everyone knows that > > > people do it > > >I wasn't bothered by the postings. But figured that >posting attempts > > > >at copyright violations, to the list. Would be just as >wise, as > > >talking about law violations, in front of an officer. > > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, > > visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, > visit: > > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, > visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp