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- From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Fax Software Piracy
- Message-ID: <722426711marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>
- Sender: marten@feki.toppoint.de
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 10:05:11 GMT
- References: <721574952.F00001@tdkt.kksys.com> <1992Nov21.003704.15528@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Organization: Private OS/2 System
- Lines: 63
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- In article <1992Nov21.003704.15528@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
-
- >In article <721574952.F00001@tdkt.kksys.com> Keller.Group@f115.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Keller Group) writes:
- >>Several people from Germany and Austria have recently faxed me
- >>registration forms and bug reports for our OS/2 fax software. The
-
- I'm such a person ...
-
- >>And it seems that European BBS sites have little respect for software
- >>ownership issues.
-
- Stupid .. "European BBS" what a general sentence ...
-
- >>And to the users of the 0.99 BitFax for OS/2 software, the problems
- >>that you are reporting were fixed long ago, and you'd save yourself a
- >>lot of time by purchasing a licensed (and supported) copy of PMfax.
- >>
-
- nice to know .... but why didn't you tell me this .. some facts below!
-
- >
- >While I certainly understand your being upset at piracy of your program.
- >You make several points that are dead wrong.
- >
- >1) If people are sending in registration or bug reports, perhaps they
- >dont realize it is a commercial product?
-
- Not really, but because of the fact that the 0.99 has bugs, which are
- especially bad for the german market: the software was not able to print
- some special characters, we in Germany have. I did a fax to the company
- to tell them about this problem. They just told me, that they only have
- tested it with the English-Version and it worked. I did a fax back to
- tell them that I had tested it with the GA-English, GA-German and the
- news Beta-English and always had the same problems .. no response any
- more and instead now this posting!
-
- >2) Does the BBS community give a shit if it gets respect from
- >"commercial" developers. Besides communication, BBS has played a vital
- >role in distributing low cost shareware--an alternative to rip-off
- >commercial software targeted to businesses.
- >
-
- Well, totally right! Be aware of the fact, that without these BBS
- nearly nobody would know about your software. Companies like the one you
- mentioned do not make many ads to let the people know, that such a
- software product is available -- OS/2 in Germany is still (and will ever
- be ...?) a small market. For myself your posting was the first source to
- let me know that Dr. Neuhaus is the distributor of your software!
-
- I'll buy your product, if I'll know, that these bugs are away. By the
- way I'm very interested, what the price for your product here in Germany
- is -- your product is listed at $99 (your fax told me ..), ok!? I'll
- call Dr. Neuhaus and after that, I'll tell you about ...
-
- Just a little bit angry ...
-
- MF
-
-
-
- --
- Marten Feldtmann, Kieler Str. 29, 2300 Kiel 14, Germany
- E-Mail: marten@tpki.toppoint.de, FAX possible
-