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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software piracy
Message-ID: <3192@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 01:35:06 GMT
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In article <41882@apple.Apple.COM> jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes:
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>  In fact, the best way to eliminate software piracy is to give software away.
>Yep, that is the ticket.  Quit all of this nasty charging for software!!
>  What, you have children to feed and house payments to make?  What a shame,
>but if you give your software away, you will not have any piracy...

	Boy, you've got it easy. Try being a young single man in Massachusetts
who has to make car insurance payments. :-(

>  Excuse my sarcasm, but I am a little tired of people who have never had
>to meet the development costs of a software project telling us that we
>should price software in a particular way.  
>  If you can't afford the software, then do without it.  There are many
>things in this world that I would like, but cannot afford.  I do without
>them.

	I know, and I agree. I can't afford a nice new car to replace my
beat-up 1979 Oldsmobile, so I think I'll steal the car that I'd like
to buy (but that I can't afford).

:-)

R.



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 Rich Siegel
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