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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Cracking games
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.223533.646@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 22:35:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: welch.1991Mar18.223533.646
References: <27442@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <31600014@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <31600014@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser) writes:
>
> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) /  6:09 pm  Mar 13, 1991 /
>>I AM NOT PIRATING SOFTWARE!!!  I HAVE LEGAL SOFTWARE COMPLETELY ON MY
>>SYSTEM (well, actually, one program isn't, but it's just unregistered
>>shareware).  I am interested in this information for piracy reasons, since
>>I am a programmer and understand the problems of piracy!
>
>"just unregistered shareware"
> ^^^^
>So, "unregistered shareware" isn't piracy, huh?  It's attitudes like this that
>that cause "commercial" packages to put anti-piracy code into their games that
>cause you the irritation of constantly looking up keywords in the documents.
>
>It's attitudes like these that cause me, "just" a shareware author, irritation
>at pirates like you.  "Unregistered shareware", when used beyond the test
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Did the original poster ever say that he/she has or hasn't used the shareware
beyond the test period? or even used it at all for that case? Who the hell
does this idiot think he is? Why don't you get some of the facts before you
bite someone's head of like that?

Glenn