Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

• ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes I am. And the two companies I worked for both were small, offered their products for cheap and still had people pirating the modules or circumvent licensing terms. It’s a legit problem that a lot of people don’t see why they should pay for software simply because it’s sometimes easy to steal it.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    circumvent licensing terms

    So to be clear: was it possible to purchase and own the software? Or did users have to pay a subscription for a license? Because personally I’m getting sick of every piece of software thinking it’s appropriate to require a subscription.

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    • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about you don’t use it if it is to be paid by subscription? How is it justified to go against an agreement just because you don’t like it?

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If something is wrong you have a moral obligation to go against it. Be it legal or not.

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      • SaltySalamander@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Naa, I'd just pirate it.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So either way I’m not paying for it. In that case pirating is not a lost sale.

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  • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you woke up.

    You’re far away from becoming even a software tester. You are merely a little meaningless particle of sand in our software engineering society. You are the living representation of zero (0) when it comes to being employed by a good company.

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