Re: Basic instinct (not entirely OT yet...)
Re: Basic instinct (not entirely OT yet...)
- Subject: Re: Basic instinct (not entirely OT yet...)
- From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:56:47 +0100
On 5 Aug 2005, at 14:11, SA Dev wrote:
Agreed 100%. I replied off-list with my own thoughts, but there's
positively no need to lambaste.
I did overreact, and I apologised to Lorenzo, but I did that off-list
because the topic had been closed (see below for a bit about Cocoa).
I also told him a story about a piece of software I once bought that
decided it was clever enough to accuse me of pirating it. "Welcome,
Brave Pirate!" is an in-joke a few of us still share, a catchphrase
we use to poke fun at one another if one of us should present an
accusation as a fait accompli.
I think a sizable percentage of shareware developers have gone
through this at some point. I know I had 'evil thoughts' the first
time I saw my hard work raped by some jerk who didn't want to pay.
I mean, pirate it for yourself - you're a thief and I hate you. But
to pirate it and post the crack online ... that's just evil.
Lorenzo was talking about erasing the hard drives of the people who
used the cracked software, not those who cracked it. Actually he was
talking about erasing the hard drives of people whom he assumed he
could correctly detect were using cracked software. I objected to the
lack of due process, and the entirely disproportionate response, in
my first email. In my second email, I was trying to make the point
that installing software other people have written is a matter of
trust, and that trust is easily lost. As Kris said, if you even have
to ask...
To bring this back to Cocoa: the framework provides so many high-
level methods for storing data persistently that you rarely need to
think about actual files. If you ever find yourself manipulating the
filesystem at low level, e.g., deleting files, your app may be
behaving outside its jurisdiction (Finder and the like are obvious
exceptions). However sure you are of what you're doing and why you're
doing it, if the framework gives you the means to abstract the
contents of the filesystem, it's probably safer to use them.
At any rate I suspect it's just more a case of needing a shoulder
to cry on, a sympathetic ear. Trust me, Lorenzo, you have it. Just
don't go psycho on someone's files. :-)
Again, Lorenzo, I apologise. We are agreed that the real problem is
the crackers :)
Best wishes,
Hamish
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