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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.204703.27957@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Dec17.165626.293@physc1.byu.edu> <1992Dec18.124705.11418@tdb.uu.se> <1992Dec21.174045.7669@usl.edu> <1992Dec21.191238.28334@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:47:03 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.191238.28334@netcom.com> howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey) writes:
-
- >Regardless of what the SW costs, free is still cheaper. Lower costs won't
- >affect piracy.
-
- Do I smell a beginning flame? Did the christmas tree catch
- fire? :-)
-
- Yes it would. Presently, I use a copy of MS word that's
- sponsored by MS for the College I attend. Mostly, I do school
- work with it, which is OK, but sometimes I don't, which isn't.
-
- However, at a price of $1000 or more, would I buy it? No.
- I would at a price of $100, but then they wouldn't afford
- to put in that &%$ JUNK in it (which I remove to save space
- on my cramped disk anyway)
-
- Why not sell the extras as add-ons, and be REALLY CHEAP with
- the base product? Or would people think "I bought Word, so
- it's OK to use the Old Latin grammar checker I "borrowed"
- from a friend of a friend."
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning
- "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
- -- Larry Hardiman
-