Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Ordania-DM From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: <32634@cup.portal.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 23:42:24 GMT References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <2051@cod.NOSC.MIL> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 30 Bill Marsh writes.... >In article <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> alanf@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Gran >t Finlay) writes: >>I suggest this is too close to the truth for comfort. What we should really >do >>is ban the copyright of software altogether. Over the past few years I have >>seen more harm than good come out of software copyrightability. > >Please name a couple of examples where a copyrighted program has caused >problems for someone other than someone with a legal licence. Hmmm...SEA vs Philip Katz, Apple vs Microsoft, Lotus vs Paperback, etc. Flame...how long have you been in Timbuktoo? :) SEA vs Philip Katz - I believe this was actually a trademark battle [do you know that using the ARC(TM) logo as a file extender is illegal? ] Apple vs Microsoft - Microsoft licensed the MAC interface, Apple got ticked when they used it for Windows & PM. Lotus vs Paperback - look and feel crapola (some merit to this suit, but so little that the suit did a great deal more harm to the community at large than Paperback did to Lotus). Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com Disclaimer: ARC (TM) is trademarked by SEA [illegally I might add, but since no judge will agree with me...]