me programmers want to be compensated for their work. To tell you the truth I don’t understand the point of software developers that want for all software to be free. If software was free, who will pay our salaries and who is going to work for free. Their point is that, if the source code would be free that programmers could improve existing programs, but who is going to work for free in improving those programs, I wouldn’t. Its easy to say for programmers like Stallman that are financially sponsored by others, that “software should be for free” he is getting paid, who is going to pay us? I agree with Pamela Samuelson “The existing system of patent laws is still the best vehicle for protecting software”. I agree with the opinion that hacking has changed in recent years. Before hacking used to be a demonstration of knowledge of a system or of making a statement that I’m smarter than most people. Most of those attacks where not malicious, now hackers have become malicious and most of them don’t demonstrate that they are smart nor demonstrate knowledge of a system. Most hacks are people that have nothing to do and go through the trashcans of corporations in hopes of finding manuals or passwords of systems or going to Tec fairs to peek over someone shoulder to see if they are dialing in into a remote system and try to get they password and username. I don’t agree with laws that punish hackers that do innocent penetrations into systems. I think that’s a god thing since those penetrations make the system operators aware of their vulnerability of attack by a malicious hacker. If no malicious penetrations wouldn’t be punished and companies would pay for finding loopholes in their systems the number of malicious attack would drastically descend. I agree with the point of view of IBM. I think that the best way of eliminating viruses is by educating programmers about the damage thos...
