The Eternal Squire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The greatest theft of sales opportunities
Utter poppycock. Who is to say that a particular entity holds an exclusive "sales opportunity" to a particular individual? Are we to protect the expectations of profit for some, at the expense of sharing things with each other? > Little can be done to stop it except through repeated education at > every grade level that copying without paying is as bad as > plagiarism and just as dangerous to one's career in school. Wonderful double-think. > Ourselves and our children are lost generations with respect to > ethics, manners, Ethics such as sharing, and helping one's neighbour? > and respect for authority When such "authority" demands that we enter unsigned contracts to protect their profits, they lose our respect, yes. > perhaps we can train our grandchildren to behave more proprely. I certainly hope our grandchildren will live in an environment that encourages helping each other, yes. -- \ "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives | `\ teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years | _o__) telling them to sit down and shut up." -- Phyllis Diller | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
