Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Rastan GS
Message-ID: <1990Oct20.073921.423@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 90 07:39:21 GMT
References: <4907@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <4907@crash.cts.com> tg.exc@pro-harvest.cts.com (Terry Guelfo) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
>
>>I support piracy as a form of TESTING OUT software.
>
>I agree with you.  However, not so many of the people out there are that
>honest about it, and that is where you run into problems.

Don't get carried away. While the pirate world does provide a person with
information about what is out there, it also has a very detrimental effect
on relatively small user bases like the GS one.

Perhaps one solution might be to allow legal owners of software the chance 
to purchase( for a small fee) a totally unprotected version of a piece of
software, after a certain time frame has passed.

It also wouldn't hurt if users bought software from those companies which
produce quality products, and simply ignored those companies which tend to
consistently produce junk.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]