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I'd just do without. Just like I do without the latest version of photoshop or microsoft office. Instead, I use open office in a manner which its creators want
by fnid2 16y ago
I'd just do without. Just like I do without the latest version of photoshop or microsoft office. Instead, I use open office in a manner which its creators want me to use it.
- Terretta 16y agoDid you ever make someone a mix tape off the radio? And why were record labels so anxious to stream for free over the airwaves they got themselves in trouble?
- fnid2 16y agoNo I didn't.
- CamperBob 16y agoNo I didn't. Well, unfortunately, your level of morality doesn't scale.
- heresy 16y agoI find that hard to believe. I don't know anyone within a degree or two of separation of myself who did not do that. Including the previous generation (I was born in the early 80s, my parents in the 50s). You've swallowed the *AA talking points, hook, line, sinker.
- muuh-gnu 16y ago> I use X in a manner which its creators want me to use it. I still did not understand this kind of often repeated argument, after years and years of reading it. Why _exactly_ should I freely, without any legal and consensual contract, limit my usage of any particular product X (be it a hammer, a car, a song, or a office spreadsheet) in any kind of way its manufacturer wishes after the point of sale? This must be some kind of moral argument, please explain.
- fnid2 16y agoI'm saying that open office creators want you to use it for free. Creators of music do not want you to use it for free. They want to make some money that they can use to pay for rent and time to invest in more music. If you download a song, you are not entering into any product/consumer agreement.