XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-05 15:09, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 9/5/2025 5:57 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   >   
   > That's a funny thing for you to say when you're excusing circumventing   
   > the license agreements and assailing doing the right thing.  I like   
   > doing things the honest way.  $146 isn't outrageous for the basic license.   
   >   
      
   I'm not excusing any such thing.   
      
   And while $146 isn't outrageous, I agree, I find your posture very   
   strange for someone who claims about Macs costing more.   
      
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