Which is correct: hacker-pirate or trader-pirate? ;)

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From Andrew Savichev To All 21 March 1998


Hi, All!
Hello, Alex!

> VM> “A good hacker is a dead hacker” ;))
>
AL>In vain. From a good hacker, and not a pirate, the author will not have any problems, and spektrumists will have excellent proprietary software. Hacker-pirate under
AL>this definition does not fit, but this is different.

Alex, be honest with the truth.
After all, you put different “professions” through a line.
I understand that one person can be anyone,
a kind of one-man orchestra. But...

While a person is at home, at the computer, he can be either
a user, or a hacker, or an author.
You can be all of them in turn, but not at the same time.
In relation to a specific program, a person can be an author(-user)
or a hacker(-user) or a user.
But as soon as he heads out of the house towards the market, then
he is either a buyer or seller.

But again, there are buyers for themselves personally, that is, BUYERS,
and there are - for the purpose of further sales, that is, TRADERS.
If you bought a hacked program from a hacker for personal use - you are
a bad user, bought it for sales (s) - you are a pirate.
So excuse me, a hacker CANNOT BE A PIRATE if he is not a seller.
Here is the one who bought it for sale - he is a pirate!
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Even if he is generally a 99.99% honest trader, he bought
at least once a hacked program and sold it thoughif only one
buyer is already a pirate!
Consequently, ALL current TRADERS are PIRATES, since the bourgeois
progs are all hacked!
But we must take TODAY as a rule: in relation to OUR programs
MUST BE 100% TRADER, and in relation to the bourgeois ones, as your conscience dictates and wallet ;).

Therefore, you can put a trader-pirate through the line,
but we were talking about it so that a person would want to be an honest
trader without any line!
If only someone else could tell me how to live honestly? ;)
Apparently, like a monk:(

>
>Sincerely, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.

Sincerely, Andrey Savichev/ CGS