>>Neither. I am curious about you. Why you feel you can call people (not me) names (like thief and worse) and insult them the way you do. I am just wondering why you see yourself as a judge of other people's morality.
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>Sorry to offend you, unfortunately, I call'em like I see 'em, and some people don't like this. If this makes me appear in a bad light, I'm sorry. I'm equally offended by people who feel that there's nothing wrong with raising the Jolly Roger on occasion.
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>I apologize for my uncultured response and the unsophisticated and thoughtless means of expressing of my displeasure and annoyance with software pirates of any kind. I have strong feelings about people whose view of what rights are enjoyed by the authors and distributors of software products are subject to 'situational ethics'. It is clearly wrong to publicly censure them in an embarrassing fashion.
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>I don't apologize for believing that they're dead wrong.
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>The Russians have the perfect term for these people - it's something like "nykulturney" (with apologies to those who actually speak Russiam and can spell it properly.) Its closest translation in English is 'no culture' or uncultured, uncivilised and barbaric. The individual labelled as such has committed a major faux paux, falling somewhere between bletching loudly at a formal dinner party, and disembowelling one's youngest child on the spot for grabbing the last pork chop on the table before Mom could sit down and eat herself. It carries a serious negative implication about the beliefs and behavior exhibited by the person tagged as such, and IMO, it expresses exactly my classification of the people involved in loose interpretation of what is acceptable recognition of authors' rights.
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>I don't think you've changed my mind about the morality of the situation. I'm sure that Michel or one of the other sysops here on UT will take appropriate steps to censure me for boorish behavior. I've no more special status here than any other member of UT, and don't expect such.

Hi Ed,

I've just taken the time to run back through all your posts on this thread, and I must be missing something. I haven't been able to find one instance where you expressed yourself badly or called someone, other than software pirates, a name. That name was "thief", and that's simply what it (piracy) is: theft.

Ever since you and I first met, I've been impressed with the depth and breath of knowledge. Now you've demonstrated another admirable characteristic: integrity, which too often is in short supply.

Kind Regards,