On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Bob Hartmann wrote: > 3. Stealing from Microsoft and Adobe is wrong. (A) It isn't "stealing" because you are not taking anything away from them when you make a copy of something. It's not like taking someone's purse. It's more like taking a photo of someone's purse. (B) Microsoft and Adobe want you to do it. It is much better for them that you use their software without paying them than it is for you to use other software (GNU/Linux, The Gimp, etc.) without paying them. Sure, they´d rather be paid, but that is unrealistic when they charge $750 for a product. That means they are pricing most of us out of the market on purpose. Thus, it is wrong to copy their programs because it helps to promote the proprietary model of software distribution and it hurts the FOSS movement. Mike