>> Buying something isn't the same as stealing it.
> 
> So, when Microsoft buys a license for PC-DOS or Spyglass, it's stealing, 
> but when Oracle does, it isn't stealing?

When you buy a licence for something and then use it in a way that the 
licence prohibits, that's stealing. Same way that if I buy a copy of 
Excel and put it on one PC, that's buying, but if I put that same copy 
onto 2,000 PCs, that's stealing.

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