XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-05 14:50, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 9/5/2025 5:41 PM, chrisv wrote:   
   >> CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-09-04 7:45 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-09-04 16:36, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 9/4/2025 12:09 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> And the story suddenly changes!   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> NO, Alan, YOU have changed, to be one of unethical cheapskates.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Not at all.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How is it "unethical" to purchase something legally for the lowest   
   >>>>>> available price.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If you cared about the businesses you patronize, you'd want them to be   
   >>>>> compensated for their work.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You're getting more and more ridiculous, dude.   
   >>>   
   >>> How is the desire to see a developer get compensation for his product   
   >>> ridiculous?   
   >>   
   >> There is no moral obligation to pay anything more than what the   
   >> product is legally available for.   
   >   
   >   
   > You can be sold an MAK license that could get all its activations used   
   > up, that can't happen if you buy a key that is individually yours.  The   
   > digital license will work with the first device but won't transfer to   
   > another.   
   >   
      
   You keep making excuses...   
      
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