Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!heaven.woodside.ca.us From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager to NeXT Message-ID: <479@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 21 Apr 91 02:34:34 GMT References: Sender: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us Lines: 36 Hardy writes > This has even broader implications: if I have paid money for, e.g., > Wordperfect for MS-Dos and later for a Macintosh, whcy shouldn't I be > entitled to Wordperfect on the NeXT and just pay for the media/manual? Why *should* you be entitled to it? It's an entirely different product. Just because you have more than one computer doesn't mean that you should get more than one copy of the software for free. The only reason you even consider this a possibility is because you can generate perfect copies of digital media, so it seems less like a product to many people. Even if the files were binary identical, you are not entitled to a free copy. They are different products. I bought a set of five tires for my Jeep Cherokee the other day. I was really incensed when the tire dealer didn't give me a free set of tires for my Chevy; after all, I had already *paid* for the *very same product* for my Jeep. All they did was make the same tire in a slightly different size, and they want me to pay full price for it. Sheesh :-) As it is, an enormous amount of software is pirated. Indignant users tend to forget the damage that they do to the entire industry (and hence themselves) by stealing software that they are "entitled to". Just because the media cost is so low and copying is so easy doesn't lessen the value of the product. The printing industry went through something like this, I believe, when the photocopier was invented. It's still not entirely settled, and they don't even get a copy that's as good as the original. -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470)