Regarding: QB4.5
Reply Requested By Nevarre Demonian

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� I'm a programmer- and get paid for the time I spend doing it.  If there
� were no piracy laws, I wouldn't get paid... would I?  Be realistic.  When
� a person puts a lot of time and effort into creating something, they
� deserve to be paid.  If it was legal to copy any piece of software you
� wanted, how many copies of something you write would you sell?
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 I've been following this thread off and on, waiting for it to reach
 home base here.  Now I have the chance to bore all with my unsolicited
 opinion.
 As a programmer, I have a question for you.  Do you write and distribute
 your own applications?  Or are you an in house programmer for a corporation.
 Reason I ask is this: if the former is the case, then I fully agree with
 you on the piracy issue as money is being taken directly from your own
 pocket.  If the latter is the case then read on:
 To my knowledge, and please feel free to correct me if Im mistaken, in-house
 programmers for the most part are paid salary.  I base this on the fact
 that 95% of the fortune 500 corps wont even hire you unless you agree to
 relinquish all rights to the company for anything created while employed
 by them and often this extends for some years after employment ends....
 Having worked in the music industry for over 10 years I understand how
 marketing rights, publication rights, and residuals come into play with
 artists...  What has been done for programmers??  Once you've busted your
 chops for a year or two developing an application, does your employer then
 purchase the rights from you and give you a percentage??  Is your hourly
 wage your only compensation plus perhaps a tidbit extra for being a good
 dog??  Im truly curious if there has been a standard for compensation
 adopted by the industry... to my knowledge, there has not.
 So, having said that, I'll get back to the topic at hand.
 I truly feel that there are too damn many incredibly talented kids out
 there to have them give up because thier economic situation makes it
 impossible to afford even the tools they need to make something of them
 selves.  The prices of programming utils are absolutely outrageous!!!!!
 IE:  Bordland C++ $339.00  MS Visual Basic $469 ...etc...etc...
 the thought of some kid dropping a dream because of the price of the
 tools he needs to create makes me sick!!

 What do you feel is a worse crime?  Microsoft not getting that extra
 $400 dollars that the original programmer was probably paid a crappy
 $15 dollars an hour for sweating bullets over??  Or, prosecuting someone
 for giving another the ability to write something that could very well
 benefit us all?
     

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