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- From: jmauric@eng.clemson.edu (John Maurice)
- Subject: Re: PIRACY v2.00
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.193309.16049@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
- References: <1992Nov14.162156.12506@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:33:09 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article 12506@dartvax.dartmouth.edu, abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
- >leikvoll@hsr.no (Morten Leikvoll) writes:
- >
- >
- >>- Would the software companies earn more money if piracy wasn`t going on?
- >>- How many hobby users wouldn`t have to find another hobby if piracy wasn`t
- >>going on?
- >>- How would this turn out on the computer marked?
- >
- >>For short:
- >> Would there exist so many and cheap computers if piracy didn't exist?
- >
- >>If we are talking about reducing piracy because the software companies had
- >>trouble with their economy, THEN I would support anti-piracy.
- >
- >>They earn so much money, that they don`t know were to put them!
- >
- >Who earn so much money?? Cinemaware?? Sirius?? Beagle Brothers?? who?? who??
- >
- >Yours Sincerely,
- >Kelvin
- >e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
-
-
- cinemaware, beagle brothers... small cakes..... but it looks like you
- seem to forget the big daddies... ever heard of the following:
-
- microsoft
- aston-tate
- apple
- borland
- claris
- etc.
-
- they all have over priced software and deserve to lose. is a spreadsheet
- really worth $500? and considering its been worked on since 1970?
- well lets see... 1992 - 1970.. 22 years.... ridiculous upgrade costs...
- of say $50 each year... thats $1100 that youve given then in just upgrade
- costs... not to mention the addition of the original cost which brings us
- to a grand total of $1550! and all that for a spreadsheet??!!!!!! are you
- crazy? i had to write a spreadsheet for a computer class 3 years ago. it
- wasnt fancy, but i gotta yell ya... $1550 for it is just a little far.
- Plus if everyone was convinced that paying $500 for software and not pirating
- was an ok idea i dont think shareware and freeware would have come along.
- if it wasnt for the pirates, i dont think shareware would have come along.
- support shareware and freeware. its the future. its time to tell the
- commercial companies where to go.
-
- ---
-
- --John
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