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From: marekp@pnet91.uucp (Marek Pawlowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTERM Documentation (was:Re: 6443)
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Date: 29 Oct 90 01:00:04 GMT
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ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes:
>In article <40@generic.UUCP>, marekp@pnet91.cts.com (Marek Pawlowski) says:
>>
>>How can you promote piracy?  It is a main factor in what has brought the Apple
>>// software industry down to extreme low levels, and most likely, never to be
>>professionally accepted again.
>
>I hadn't thought about it before, but reading this made me realize just
>how much piracy had to do with making the // popular in the first place.

True, in the beginning.  That does not ring true in the 90's, where no one
wants to be ripped off.  Back in the 70's, with entrepreneurial "flops", it
was expected that something new had it's faults.  Do you think someone would
do something like Woodstock, today?  I strongly doubt it.
Piracy is completely discouraging for the authors.  Even the wonderful idea of
Shareware, which I really believe in, is really letting me down.  Sometimes I
feel like all the time and effort has gone to waste.

Don't read me wrong.  There ARE very honest people out there, and very nice
people.  I admire and respect them for doing that.  And always will.

Piracy is stealing.  Plain and simple.  Some people bring up something along
the lines of "I'd rather see the software and finding out it's crap, before
buying it and finding it out".  I never have this problem.  You see, there's
this thing called "word of mouth", and there's friends, who will gladly show
off some software to you, WITHOUT breaking laws..  If we were to let some
people test some software, and tell us if it's good or bad, I would trust them
more than any magazine.  After all, they're not being payed for it.  From what
I read, "Dungeon Master" is an extreme success.  People love it.  Then there's
everything Brian Greenstone wrote, again, highly acclaimed..

See my point?

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