Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!nosc!cod!bmarsh From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: <2056@cod.NOSC.MIL> Date: 15 Aug 90 20:15:20 GMT References: <32794@cup.portal.com> <3wJXN2w162w@halcyon.wa.com> Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 16 In article <3wJXN2w162w@halcyon.wa.com> ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) writes: >SEA went to court and now ARC 7.0 is better, faster, tighter (read ad hype >here) than anything else on the planet. [hyperbole mine] I wonder if going to court prompted this 'new' version, or the fact that ZIP was becoming very popular, and they had no 'legal' means to stop it. If this had been the original response to PKARC then I would have applauded SEA, and we all would all have better utilities. But as it stands I have removed all ARC files from my systems... Bill -- Bill Marsh, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA {arpa,mil}net: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil uucp: {ihnp4,akgua,decvax,dcdwest,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!nosc!bmarsh "If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane."