Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 18:11:14 GMT References: <6655@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 29 markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark Henderson) writes: > Registration for PKZIP is $47; > ARC 7.0 sells for $49.95; so they're comparably priced. ^^^^^ I take this to mean that ARC 7.0 is a commercial product? > Lawsuit or not, > I'll use the product that makes most efficient use of limited > resources: disk space and transmission time. Efficiency, although important, is a lesser consideration to me than portability. With ARC 7.0 a commercial product, I have little or no guarantee that the recipient of my compressed file will be able to unpack it. > Can one really be confident that if things had gone differently that > we would have even better utilities? At least I can't. Knowing Phil Katz's work record, I can! His version of ARC (which scared SEA into starting this whole mess) was _already_ superior. Hairsbreadth superiority or not, I still stick with ZIP. Maybe, _if_ I start seeing _vast_ numbers of 7.0-compressed ARCfiles, I'll change my mind, but I wouldn't be holding my breath. -- Roy M. Silvernail | #include | Does virtual now available at: | main(){ | reality need cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | float x=1; | swap space? (cyberspace... be here!)| printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} | -- me