Strictly speaking, I agree with you. I ultimately don't care how I'll be remembered since I'll be dead, but life itself is much more fun when you aren't hated while living it, at least not by too many people. Also, for those people with a conscience, just the personal knowledge that one's success is "based on a lie" might well be enough to sour the flavor of that success.
From what I've read, there's no evidence that Katz drank himself to death because he was overwrought with guilt caused by "stealing" ARC. I feel that if someone takes an existing program and re-writes it entirely in a more difficult language and creates very tangible improvements to it, it's not simple theft. Almost nothing is that black and white.
Katz was, apparently, a guy with no friends who spent most of his time with strippers. I would probably drink a lot, too.
From what I've read, there's no evidence that Katz drank himself to death because he was overwrought with guilt caused by "stealing" ARC. I feel that if someone takes an existing program and re-writes it entirely in a more difficult language and creates very tangible improvements to it, it's not simple theft. Almost nothing is that black and white.
Katz was, apparently, a guy with no friends who spent most of his time with strippers. I would probably drink a lot, too.