[News] [Rival] More BSA-IDC-Microsoft Circus for New Laws Through Brainwash - Linux
This is a discussion on [News] [Rival] More BSA-IDC-Microsoft Circus for New Laws Through Brainwash - Linux ; Homer writes:
> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>
>> The only thing I can even hope to identify is loss of potential
>> revenue, and even then Homer insists (and probably ...

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Homer writes:
> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>
>> The only thing I can even hope to identify is loss of potential
>> revenue, and even then Homer insists (and probably correctly; I can't
>> tell) that the main individuals interested in getting payware for
>> free would not have gone for the payware in the first place anyway;
>> therefore no revenue is lost.
>
> That's the "pirates" argument, not mine.
>
> Mine is quite simply that revenue !== exclusivity (monopoly).
>
> Linonut and I have already posted several links to creative works that
> are /sold/ for profit, and yet have no restrictions on distribution,
> proving that such a method does work (of course history also proves
> this, since copyrights did not always exist).
Does work for who? Cheapskates and thieves like you?
uh, huh.
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Re: [News] [Rival] More BSA-IDC-Microsoft Circus for New Laws Through Brainwash
Homer writes:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Hardon spake thusly:
>> Andrew Halliwell writes:
>
>>> Poor old hardon just can't get it through his thick skull that
>>> there's a difference and keeps on calling me a thief because of it.
>>>
>>> It's rather sad how far their mental problems have gone really,
>>> isn't it?
>>
>> And I suspect Hans didn't "murder" his wife. He merely facilitated a
>> seizure of the heart.
>
> How did we get from you making libellous allegations of theft, to Hans
> Reiser?
It's linked to the bit you, not surprisingly, snipped.
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throw up some kind of dialog, I change the user agent and look at them
again, then move on."
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Re: [News] [Rival] More BSA-IDC-Microsoft Circus for New Laws Through Brainwash
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
wrote
on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:29:29 +0200
:
> Homer writes:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>>
>>> The only thing I can even hope to identify is loss of potential
>>> revenue, and even then Homer insists (and probably correctly; I can't
>>> tell) that the main individuals interested in getting payware for
>>> free would not have gone for the payware in the first place anyway;
>>> therefore no revenue is lost.
>>
>> That's the "pirates" argument, not mine.
>>
>> Mine is quite simply that revenue !== exclusivity (monopoly).
>>
>> Linonut and I have already posted several links to creative works that
>> are /sold/ for profit, and yet have no restrictions on distribution,
>> proving that such a method does work (of course history also proves
>> this, since copyrights did not always exist).
>
> Does work for who? Cheapskates and thieves like you?
>
> uh, huh.
http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...c.html#hominem
5 yard penalty; still second down.
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Re: [News] [Rival] More BSA-IDC-Microsoft Circus for New Laws ThroughBrainwash
Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron wrote
> on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:29:29 +0200
> :
>> Does work for who? Cheapskates and thieves like you?
What have I stolen?
Put up or shut up.
[Watches Hardon slither away under a rock].
>> uh, huh.
>
> http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...c.html#hominem
>
> 5 yard penalty; still second down.
He doesn't have any argument, nor the capacity to even formulate one,
so he'd rather lash out with lies and libel than face defeat.
--
K.
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