Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!archimedes.math.uwm.edu!jgreco From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Piracy and Software Keywords: give me a break Message-ID: <5599@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Aug 90 06:23:42 GMT References: <631@beguine.UUCP> <5415@uwm.edu> <1990Jul30.185020.6299@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics Lines: 32 In comp.sys.cbm article <1990Jul30.185020.6299@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>, ged@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Ged) wrote: :>:Gif files look much nicer on the same monitor for my IBM and they don't take :>:20 minutes to print on the screen. :>Don't use a GIF reader in BASIC. If you used a BASIC GIF reader on an IBM, :>it'd take 30 minutes. ;-) :Maybe you should write a shareware program and make lots of money. :I know lots of people that would eat it up. As past experience has shown, shareware basically stinks. Besides, I'm not a graphics or sound (for that matter) guru. My specialty is telecommunications and Kernal level I/O. :>Now, I'm just wondering what all this has to do with the original question? : :Good question. Maybe you were just trying to start an arguement. No, I just wasn't in the mood to listen to such opinionated ****. So I interjected a few opposing opinions. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu USnail: Joe Greco Voice: 414/321-6184 9905 W. Montana Ave. Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS) West Allis, WI 53227-3329 #include Disclaimer: I don't speak for the Math Department, the University, or myself.