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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Copyright Violations - how can software people do this
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 17:27:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 17:27:46 1984
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The photocopied manual for my pirated copy of BDS-C had a rather nice
personal statement from the author about software piracy.  He stated
that the reason he was selling his package for such a low price and
with no royalty agreements for the libraries or produced code was that
he figured the way to make the profit was to make things available at
a reasonalbe price so people would buy the legitimate copies rather
than inflating the price so much that people wouldn't think twice about
copying someone elses.  His other motive, he goes on to state, is that
he thought C was a good idea, and wishes people to devolop products using
it and encourage growth so more people would obtain copies of the compiler
and maybe even a few would even purchase it.

-Ron