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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Piracy
- Message-ID: <BxuDI2.HLu@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:54:02 GMT
- References: <BxtLp7.JnE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov16.202918.25113@ra.msstate.edu> <1e91btINNtg0@ub.d.umn.edu> <1e991mINNfre@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
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- >rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
- >> You want a better equasion?!
- >>
- >> Software Piracy = Shoplifting
-
- >Actually this isn't true. Software piracy creates two copies of a a program
- >where only one existed before. Shoplifting doesn't create anything.
-
- >Software piracy also doesn't affect shopowners in the same way as shoplifting
- >because the software is still on their shelves...
-
- Yes, but it affects the developers. $5-$20 of software cost is the packaging,
- distribution disks, manuals (largest part), shipping, etcetera. The rest is
- not profit. Still more cost comes from paying the people who design, code,
- test, recode, and maintain the code. There's not a lot of room left for profit
- before shopowners get to mark it up so *they* can make some money on it. What
- you're paying for when you buy software is for the company to continue
- developing software for your platform. When you stop supporting them by free-
- loading off their hard work, you're deciding you don't care if anyone writes
- anything more than PD software for your platform, and good as Amiga freeware and
- PD are, there's no Professional Calc, PageStream, ADPro, or SAS/C there, just to
- name a few. There's no Armour-geddon, 4d-boxing, Lemmings, or James Pond in the
- PD. Do you want to see Amiga software stop here, where it is? WordPerfect has
- already left, and they're *used* to piracy. They weren't getting enough
- support.
-
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