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December 18, 2001 at 01:09 AM
penguinsrule

Microsoft and Piracy

by penguinsrule . Updated 24 years, 6 months ago

I am quite bothered about the fact that Microsoft is now in this position of coming down hard on Software Piracy. First, I certainly do not think that Piracy is ok, and I do not practice this myself. But, coming from the ultimate thieves of all time, is quite absurd and in all truth software piracy is really what got them where they are today, because if it weren’t for the widespread copying of their software – it wouldn’t have led to the widespread acceptance, and they wouldn’t be where theyare today. How many things have they ripped off someone else and called their own. It makes me absolutely sick, everytime I attend anything Microsoft and they claim something as their own when I knew that Digital or someone else was actually the company that did it. So, shouldn’t we get the logs out of our own eye before we get the speck out of someone elses? It’s not wrong to speak against Piracy, but it is wrong to speak against it when you practice it yourselves in other ways.

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