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From: mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software piracy
Message-ID: <9338@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 13 Jun 90 13:39:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
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| ||"The best way to prevent illegal software piracy is to lower the
| ||softwares' prices, you hear me out there? Mr. Adobe & Mr. Letraset?"
| |
| |"The best way to reduce car radio thefts is to lower car radio prices,
| |do you hear me Mr. Blaupunkt & Mr. Alpine?"
| 
| stealing software lowers the price.  Software companies are not producing
| products for their health!  The only way to lower the prices is through
| competition.  Mark, do you think you can write and market ATM cheaper
| than Adobe can?  Then do it!  Telling them that people are going to steal

Russ, try reading my (somewhat terse) reply again, only this time, turn
your "sarcasm detector" up to "high"... I think you missed my point, 
somewhat. ;-)

Mark Brown   IBM AWD / OSF  | Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam
The Good     mbrown@osf.org | Why they changed it, I can't say
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Mark Brown   IBM AWD / OSF  | Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam
The Good     mbrown@osf.org | Why they changed it, I can't say
The Bad     uunet!osf!mbrown| People just liked it better that way...
The Ugly     (617) 621-8981 |        -They Might Be Giants