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Subject: [OM] Re: Big 2 dominate in Japan
From: Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:46:05 -0500


On 1/13/08 5:48 PM, "Larry" <halpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
>>   I was relieved when Larry morphed
>> from the guy who gave directions and justification for stealing
>> software 
> 
> I'm still that guy, and continually get emails from this list actually
> appreciating that. I won't be one limiting entitlement to software based
> on how much money you were lucky enough to acquire. If civilization here
> just happened to decide "the world isn't fair" in terms of money and
> success, then it can spread to the luckily financially comfortable
> feeling that it isn't fair that those who can't compile enough money for
> Photoshop, (or Acrobat, or Dreamweaver, or Lightroom, or DXO, etc.)
> should be having it. There's plenty of less featured software out there
> that the "unsuccessful"  should use, and its just too bad. Deal with
> it.  Ultimately the financially-comfortable must believe in the false
> myth that it is "life choices" or "hard work" that directly translates
> to success, and make up morals to go with it. Actually intelligently
> planned life choices, and intensely hard work can just as easily lead to
> the opposite.


I wish more people had that attitude in respect to things like food, medical
care, and decent housing. Things people truly need. I have had this argument
with a number of people on the dpreview.com forums, which are hotbeds of
ultra-right wing economic philosophy. That philosophy is basically one that
holds that human life has no value unless the person in question has money,
and money is merely a sign of that person's worthiness. The worthless
automatically have nothing and their starvation is nature's way. This idea
is morally repugnant and should be fought by anyone with any sense of
decency.

Software isn't so important in the grand sceme of life. Why don't you put
that moral imperative to work fighting hunger, poverty, lack of medical
care, lack of housing for those among us who have little?


-- 
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana

http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio

http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!

http://www.plumpatrin.com  Something the world NEEDS.



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