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From: wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software?
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.202435.5382@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:24:35 GMT
References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <Aug.7.15.00.09.1990.12840@dimacs.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Aug.7.15.00.09.1990.12840@dimacs.rutgers.edu> srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) writes:
>In article <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> fullerr@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>
>> I am wondering why people pirate software.  Other than the obvious cost
>> advantages of pirating software what are some possible justifications for
>> piracy?  Please reply by e-mail.
>

	Since I know a reason I thought I would respond.  It is one
word: Cost.  New software is sometimes too expensive and sucks.  I but
my own or use public domain now, but commercial software is just too
much.


-bryon lape-