Re: C++ price
Skoda writes:
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buy it illegal from guy that sells it, sure someone around there, like i did
VC++5.0. it was 1 cd around 10$ (1000SIT)
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I hope that's a political statement, and you're an anarchist out to destroy
Capitalist and the Western Way of Life. Because if not, you're a thief, or
at least a thief's accomplice.
Mind you, I do not live in Alpha Centauri. I'm perfectly aware that good
software can be very expensive, and the temptation can be great, too. But
even if you can't afford shareware (and if you can pay $10 there's a lot of
good inexpensive shareware around), there's always freeware. Search a
little, and you will find tons of wonderful free software, really free and
really functional and useful.
Nobody's perfect, and be assured that this is not a personal matter, against
you or anybody else. But there's a world of difference between ocassionally
copying something you haven't paid for (which you and I and everybody has
done, but is still illegal, and you should never forget it, because your
pleasure is someone's pain), and the serious purchasing of illegal software
from a black market dealer.
Those guys are not your friends, lending you a hand by saving you a few
bucks. They are wholesalers, they mount veritable factories, they make
thousands of dollars (and more) out of your need and/or greed. And they
don't pay the taxes that pay for the hospitals and schools you need even
more than cheap software.
Search the web, search ftp sites. Go to www.tucows.com, to www.zdnet.com, to
www.cnet.com. Query your favorite search engines (mine are
www.northernlight.com and www.alltheweb.com) for "freeware programming
downloads", or similar phrases. You'll be overwhelmed by the variety and
quality of the material you'll find.
I don't know about your country, but do you know what's been happening, here
in Argentina, for the last few years? Sick and tired of being pirated out of
business, the main software vendors, international and local, have joined
forces, hired a law firm, and involved the Federal Police and the national
tax office. Every few weeks they fall upon one of your friendly neighborhood
copymasters, confiscate the goods, throw them into jail, and splash them all
over the papers and TV news. As the criminals they are.
Copying for personal use may be excused on the basis of need,
unavailability, or even convenience. You don't want to enter your credit
card number, or you couldn't buy it any nearer than Outer Mongolia, as is
still the case in some parts of the world. But copying for commercial use is
a very different matter, and it's the same whether you do it yourself, or
you knowingly buy it from someone who does.
Sorry about the sermon, friends, but some things I feel just have to be
said. Thank you.
Gerardo E. Brandariz
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