On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:57:26 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Bananas are readily available but they are not generally free. That is
why it can be misleading to say they are freely available.

bananas are not software

They are nouns.

good point. all nouns are distributed in the same way software is.

another hour or so and my groceries should be finished downloading.

The sentence under discussion says nothing about downloading.

the issue is pirating cs2, no matter how hard you try to twist it into
something else.

So too is 'Adobe illustrator'. My statement was
concerned with the use/misuse of the English language.

as well it should, since you greatly misused it.

This from the guy who thinks that parsing applies only to software.

where do i get a hardware parser?

You don't. But you balked at the idea of parsing the English language.

you are pirating it.

Not necessarily.

yes necessarily.

Even if he already has a license?

he doesn't and you know it.

I've ploughed through much of his junk and found nothing to suggest
that he has a copy of Illustrator,

exactly the point.

So we don't know either way.

you might not, but the rest of us certainly know.

let alone that he has pirated it.

since it's clear that he never bought cs2, downloading it is pirating
it.

Has he downloaded it?

duh.

he also has admitted to pirating a wide variety of other stuff, so this
is not any sort of surprise.

As far as I can tell the discussion is in the general case, in which
case neither the presence or absence of a license can be assumed.

assumed is the wrong word. no assumptions are necessary.

Where is your evidence?

his numerous posts in this thread and others.

based on what he's written in this thread and countless others, it's
*quite* clear what he's doing.

The clarity is an inference.

not to those who pay attention.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens