Pirating Windows....Evil or Justified?..Justified Evil??

[AKDejaVu]

 

you can only crank out totaly buggy toejam and expect people to pay extravagent prices for it for so long.......thats about all there is to it.

Are we talking about Microsoft here?

Are we talking about Operating Systems here?

I seriously question your definition of "extravagent prices" if you are referring to the two above prices.

I paid $70 in 1992 for Win 3.0.  I received Win95 beta for free then paid $79 when it was released in October of 95.  I then paid $79 three years later for Win98.  That is a grand total of $228 over 10 years.  Pretty incredible eh?  Not anywhere near extravagent by any means.

Since the advent of Win95, a new level of standardization has crept in.  Now, virtually everything you buy will work on your PC.  Virtually everything on the software shelves will work on your PC.  Virtually everything being developed will work on your PC.  Do you even have the slightest idea why that is?  I don't think you do.

But then you are just a spoiled snot nosed brat that never really had to pay for or worry about anything before in his life.  Standardization is simply seen as limitation and can then be used as justification for you not really having to do or pay anything in order to be entertained.  Its like stealing a sony playstation in order to play PS2 games, but feeling justified because sony is actually monopolistic and hasn't really done anything for you.

Its pathetic to sit here and even remotely justify your actions.  Either steal it and move on, or buy it and not worry about it.  Just don't come here and try to come off as if you are some kind of victim in the grand scheme of things.  I seriously doubt you really know what it means to be mistreated by a company, organization or anything else for that matter.

Now please go back to whatever free game it is that you are currently playing.  Go back to making demands simply because you decided to play their game for free and that it somehow magically transforms you into something very similar to a customer.  Go back to talking about how toejamty stolen software is.  toejamty stolen software that you can't seem to live without.

That's it for you wobble.. enough wasted font.

AKDejaVu

[TheWobble]

 

Go back to making demands simply because you decided to play their game for free and that it somehow magically transforms you into something very similar to a customer.

HTC has more of my money than Microsoft will ever see.


Now climb off your high horse before ya bust yer ass.

[Smut]

 

Originally posted by TheWobble:
Now climb off your high horse before ya bust yer ass.

Two words for you, Mr Pirate:

Bite Me

-Smut

[TheWobble]

 

Mr Pirate:

---Slut

Its Captian Pirate

You land lubbing som-squeak.
 

[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 04-18-2001).]

[Animal]

AKDejaVu:

*claps*
MARVELOUS speech!
Everything I wanted to say, and then some more.

I'm pretty tired of people trying to justify their actions with some toejamty excuses and blaming companies.
If you need their software, buy it.
If you STOLE IT, then just say "hey, I couldnt pay it, so I copied it" I have done it once and then. But dont come here trying to pass yourself as a Robin Hood.

[TheWobble]

I dont want to seem like a robin hood at all, Microsoft makes a very needed bust very toejamty product, I deem ut unworthy of my hard earned money, so i make the proper choice...  I was just curius of what others though obout pirating windows xx


No the title says

"Pirating Windows....Evil or Justified?..Justified Evil??"

NOT

"I steal software and i think its right so go diddly yourselves"

I dont advocate stealing software in general at all..but Windows....pffft.

I would venture to guess that at least 70% of the people here did not pay for the version of windows they are using...



[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 04-18-2001).]

[Animal]

the point is

"I steal software and i think its right so go diddly yourselves"

would be a much more acceptable title.

[Smut]

 

Originally posted by TheWobble:
 You land lubbing som-squeak

Dude, it's quite likely that I have more time at sea than you have on the toejamter.

You lose again.

-Smut
AT2, USN 1984-91

[Smut]

 

Originally posted by TheWobble:
I dont advocate stealing software in general at all..but Windows....pffft.

Stealing is stealing.

Run along, pirate scum. As a software developer, I have no sympathy for you or your whining.

-Smut

[sling322]

While yer out there stealin' software Wobbly....consider a spell checker wouldya?

*disclaimer - all spellings in this post are intentional in order to portray the proper dialect that Wobbly is accustomed to.