>>>>>>>Am I correct in saying you only advocate activism when you agree with the position? Does obligation lose a moral context if it's not yours?
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>>>>>I believe (though cannot proclaim) that Tamar's reaction is along the lines of reaction to the neighbour who calls emergency services whenever they smell a whiff of smoke or hear a child's shriek.
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>>>>A ridiculous comparison, John.
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>>>>Chen is violating the law, and people are using his illegal software. It's not a trivial matter.
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>>>No he's not. He has the right to do this.
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>>When Chen received the software, he agreed to abide by the terms of service. Even if his country allows him to do something otherwise, he clicked through an "I Agree" button to get the software, and he personally agreed to those terms.
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>>On those merits alone, before an examination of his personal testimony uttered unto this world, he is guilty of violating those terms.
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>>And even if in China he won't be prosecuted because the Chinese government winks at such activities, it remains illegal for us here in the U.S. to receive these products, and probably also in many other nations which do business with the U.S. and have treaties which honor and protect U.S. copyright and IP laws.
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>>I am truly amazed at the number of people willing to disobey U.S. copyright law when it suits them. It is the truly miserable, despicable, dishonorable behavior on this forum, and especially so in teaching people that it's okay to disobey the law likewise. Such things are weighed against a person's own soul.
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>Just to your knowledge.

Does not work with Rick. Whenever cited that his legal views are irrelevant, he will shortly proclaim only to care about US citizens and then again try to usurp global position via giving his (US? don't think so...) rules unassailable/god-given status.

I think ignoring the troll is second best to having him excluded from this watering hole, as the actions went from pure trolling to endangering financial status of a member probably more beneficial to "vfp users at large" than him.

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>MS EULA, as deliverd with MS Foxpro 9.0 is without any relevance in Europe. I bought the product as is in a box. Any additional license etc that is not visible on the outside on packacke is illegal - or not in effect. This might be different in stuff one get via www, but even then the license has to be to my knowledge before payment. Anything that comes afterwards is without meaning. (If there is a I-disagree-and-get-my-money-back, it's different.) That's the law.
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>So for the Peoples Republic of China they also might be different rules then in the U.S.