You can rationalize it any way you want Larry, but it is still stealing.
I don't know what you do for a living, but I suspect you wouldn't appreciate
it if people stole from you, regardless of how much you make.
In reality, the poor programmer that wrote the code isn't getting rich --
he's just lucky to still have a job in this economy. If enough people steal
it, he won't, he'll be out on the street, looking for work where there isn't
any.
The days of the mythical software guys getting rich are over and done with,
partially because of people like you.
Tom
> When software guys are not 100,000's of thousands of dollars ahead of the
rest
> of us for similar effort, software might become more easily in reach.
>
> If you're lucky enough to have extra hundred's of dollars lying around (I
sure
> don't), then do what makes you comfortable. Most here have my email
address
> blocked, so they don't see my messages. If a couple of popular list people
> respond, then my photoshop post has just been redistributed far far more,
since
> my post was not snipped.
>
> Larry
>
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