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Re: M$ IL latest craze



On Sun, 30 May 1999, Andre E. Bar'yudin wrote:


  Hello,


  I beg your pardon. If you cannot afford buying software, make your own.
Would you go and steal from a shop using the "I am not as wealthy as some
rich Arab, so I am allowed to steal" excuse ?

  Pirating software is downright stealing. The fact Israelies don't see it
that way, and they pirate software, don't pay for shareware, and in
general act like a bunch of worthless scums when it comes to software is
downright disgusting to me, and if some software pirates would have been
put behind bars, because they can't pay a XX million dollars lawsuit of
Microsoft against them, then maybe the message would pass through.

  Of course that if all this could have been passed through education from
the early age, i.e., respecting other's property, and being honest and not
trying to look for shortcuts everywhere, the reality in which we live
(regarding software piracy of course) would have been totally different.

--Ariel

> On Sun, 30 May 1999, naftali wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I dont agree with you, first of all, Hebrew support isnot just
> > transporting fonts but rather support the entire hebrew syntax: writing
> > left to write, switching and embeleshing english,dictionariesinside etc.
> > And that luxury costs ALOT of money for a language only 10 million ppl use
> 
> That's all??And what about some hundreds of arabs and peoble who use
> arabic?They certainly need BiDi.  Some of them are rich enough (all
> those OPEC countries) so they can afford themselves to buy legal
> software...
> 
> > [...]
> >
> 
> Andre.
> 
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