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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. IBM Piracy, was: Wayne's (fantasy) World
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Date: 7 Jun 91 03:49:14 GMT
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kudla@jec313.its.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:

>  Piracy is *lots* worse on the IBM because there are *lots*
>more users and the easiest way to steal software is to take it from
>work.

I guess there's always been piracy, but this is true.  Almost every
single person I know that owns IBMs does so because they can steal
software from work.  One guy asked me for advice about purchasing a
computer (I maintain IBM-PCs) and I asked him what he wanted to do,
who'd be using it, and then suggested an Amiga.  'Oh no, I want an
IBM so i can use all this free software'.  Even some visiting 
engineers from Italy told me they use IBM because they don't have to
purchase software for it.


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Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu