Crime or Customer right? 2

[sleew]

Recently i posted a question in W2000S forum asking how i can install Compaq Windows on non-compaq machine.If i hack
CWindows did i done something wrong, even if i fully payed for that windows when i bought Compaq desktop?If that copy of Windows is my property i my install it where i want,right? Or not? Sleew
Compaq & Microsoft TS
sleew@infosky.net

 

[edfair]

Sorry, I disagree.
We've had too many instances of ill advised laws allowing or forcing people to do un-ethical things. Crusades. Germany, 1933. South Africa, apartheid. United States, slavery. Rawanda, genocide. Balkans, ethnic clensing.
Politicians make laws. Sometimes the process gets corrupted.
And when it gets corrupted, it is up to the individual to live up to their own standards. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[sleew]

Index,
you mean mainstrem toward truth.Aint gone work.Like Ed said:ask people in aparheid
or practicly everywhere on planet(in some moment)is the low what define ethic.
How many dead people in the name of low?
How many suffer for someones pocket?
How many lows that works for monopol?
I rather believe in pathfinders.Masses are
to stupid to figure out what will certain
low bring in practice and how it will
be applied through whole law system,
again, in pratice.There are lawyers to understand that.if you want real advice or truth, find pathfinder,he will tell you.....

in 5 min go to sea, see you next week! ;-) Sleew
Compaq & Microsoft TS
sleew@infosky.net

 

[gunthnp]

ED Fair is right law should be made for the good of the public but it tends to be made for those with more money over the wellfare of the public which mean those in charge have to be reminded who they work for sometimes, civil disobense and all. But to break a law because it does not suit you leads to the break down of society. gunthnp
Have you ever woken up and realized you where not alive.

 

[pivan]

MasterRacker sez: "We're all ultimately responsible for our own actions. If you choose to act outside the fabric of society, fine. But remember you have no reason then to be upset if society turns around and squashes you for it's own good. Everyone has a choice about how they're going to act. "

Does this then mean, that we have the right to bury a hatchet, pirate software, enjoin apartheid, etc, etc. etc, as long as we are willing to face the consequences of our actions, if we are caught?

"You can do anything you want to do as long as you are willing to pay the consequences." Wendell Gutters, Oct. 1968.

Regards,
pivan

In not now, when?
If not here, where?
If not us, who?

Just do it!!

 

[MasterRacker]

Good point about my poor wording. It looks like we've come full circle. We've also strayed from the original topic. What I was trying to do was take a shot at people who pirate software, then when caught also complain about being prosecuted. They made a choice about pirating. They didn't have to. Just because someone thinks they need a certain piece of software to get ahead in their career, but can't afford it, does not give them some kind of right to steal it. It's theft and it's a choice they're making. Nobody's forcing them.

As to the more general law and ethics debate, I'll let theat move on to the philosophy majors, which I am not.
Jeff

I haven't lost my mind - I know it's backed up on tape somewhere ....