Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!varian!zehntel!donw
From: donw@zehntel.zehntel.com (Don White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
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Date: 7 Aug 89 23:21:24 GMT
References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4929@alvin.mcnc.org> <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <4929@alvin.mcnc.org> raw@mcnc.org.UUCP (Russell Williams) writes:
>>In article <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.UUCP (Evan Mitchell) writes:
>>>In article <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> mikey@nrc.com (Mikey Goodglick) writes:
>>>>Bad news people.... Cinemaware may be getting out of producing software
>
>Let me tell you all a little story....
>
>I was at a SF convention a couple of months ago.  They had a "computer room",
>as some of them do.  Inside were three or four Amigas.
 
>Also inside were some THOUSAND 3.5" diskettes, with every program ever
>conceived for the Amiga on them.  And among them was not ONE original disk.
>NOT ONE.

>EVERY SINGLE ONE.  EACH ONE was copyable, and the people in the room didn't
>seem to care much what you did with the disks (ie: if you had a few blanks
 
>I was NOT impressed.

     Ah, the eyes of Heisenberg.

     To quote an unknown poet of little renown...
               STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

     THis posting ignores the number one rule of good computing.
 
               ALWAYS HAVE BACK UPS!

     If I can't backup a program, I won't buy it. When a copy program comes
  out, I buy the copy program AND the protected program I want. Thats right
  I said BUY! I NEVER take originals into public. It is too risky.

     Lastly, I like to trust that people won't sit down and copy my programs.
  If I have to hire a guard, I won't go out into public places. I can't live 
  like that.

     The gist of this reply is that I consider myself to be an honest person.
  I did not see anything sinister in your description of the computer meeting.
  
     It sounds like you EXPECTED to see piracy. It sounds like all you REALLY
  saw was carelessness.

     The rest was your interpretation.

     Don White
     Box 271177 Concord, CA. 94527-1177
     zehntel!donw