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Corporate XP and SP2
If one has any moral fiber at all the analysis would lead one to realize
theft is theft. Testy "Shane" wrote in message ... You need to analyse this stuff unemotionally. Rationally. Shane "Testy" wrote in message ... That is the greatest piece of rationalization I have ever read! I guess it makes you sleep better at night believing you are not a thief. Testy "Al Smith" wrote in message ... In the case you describe, theft is from Microsoft. The business may also have a problem with Microsoft because they are not adequately controlling the licenses. So in fact the company stands to lose as well. The company very well may lose something, especially if Microsoft determines they are not protecting the licenses adequately. In that very real possible situation, the company may lose "the ability to use it." The theft isn't from Microsoft, because Microsoft hasn't lost anything. Therefore no theft has occurred. There is no particular reason to suppose that a person using a pirated version of the OS would have gone out and bought the OS, had the pirate edition not been available. This might be the case, but it also might *not* be the case. And there is no way to demonstrate that it is the case. Besides, theft is taking something real that already exists, not potentially depriving someone of possible, speculative, additional future earnings. When a pirated edition of Windows is used, it is copied. Nothing happens to the original edition. It does not cease to be. Microsoft does not lose the money it made by selling the original edition. Copying is not theft. It may involve an infringement of the Microsoft license agreement, but that is not theft. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 8/11/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 8/11/2004 |
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