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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: piracy
Message-ID: <4528@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 17:09:10 GMT
References: <8911121022.AA17345@trout.nosc.mil> <5724@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <36425@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <36425@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>
>"I got a copy of this game and played it for about two weeks and then it
>wasn't challenging anymore.  Of course I'm not gonna buy it; it's no good."
>Yeah, right.  Self-justification reaches new highs.

I agree with Matt.  If the software is "trash" why do you want a copy?  The
fact that you want a copy indicates that the software has some value.  If we,
as users don't buy the software we use, no new software will be written 
because all of the programmers will go broke.

Since software drives sales of machines, you are killing the Apple II a lot
more than Apple supposedly is by not paying for software.

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu