Bjorn Felten wrote to Kurt Weiske on Friday August 24 2012 at 22:27:   
      
   Instead of carrying your illegal file sharing ideas over here, you should   
   concentrate them in FIDONEWS. At least that woukld keep the stuff out of echos   
   that are supposed to be dealing with a specific subject, such as this one.   
      
   KW>> If you're talking about fair use for using a downloaded/installed OS   
   KW>> when you have shown good-faith efforts in owning a license, Microsoft   
   KW>> has been tough on that.   
      
   BF> Well, that's very true, Kurt. But only "officially". Unofficially MS   
   BF> realised that it was thanks to so many unauthorized copies of their OS   
   BF> (from MS-DOS and up) that made it the global success.   
      
   The usual excuse for illegal file sharing. Send it to Microsoft, tell them   
   you're sharing their new Windows 8 program (or any other, for that matter) at   
   such and such a website and provide your name, address and phone number. I'd   
   be delighted to hear from you afterwards if they allow fido systems to be run   
   in Swedish prisons.   
      
   But instead of trying to paint black white, you might spare at least this echo   
   your spam. Share files if you want, but don't preach such garbage that it's   
   perfectly OK. Your moral judgements are of no interest whatever, and only   
   bloat the echo.   
      
   Cheers, Bob   
      
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