20 Aug
2015
20 Aug
'15
7:12 p.m.
I suppose they started to use the term due to the "sea of information" that
actually is internet, but technically the act of copying a software is
closer to making good fake copies of an item ( bags, shoes, etc ), at least
this is my personal view
That's usually called "forgery"
Not really. Forgery (at least of items) normally has the idea of using inferior
materials or construction and passing it off as an product of another company.
For example, if you wrote an 8080 BASIC with lots of bugs, with many functions
missing, etc, and then tried to pass it off as the Microsoft BASIC that would
be forgery I think.
But a copy of the Microsoft product _is_ identical to the genuine article. It is the
same bit patterns. Once loaded into your 8080 system memory it works the
same way. So IMHO it is not really a forgery.
-tony