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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: An open letter to software pirates
Message-ID: <908@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 09:58:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 09:58:20 1985
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Thanks to an agreement with Borland, Turbo Pascal is sold on this campus
for a ridiculously low price (about $30 or less, which is WAY below the
already modest price of this package).  Result?  Students are stealing
copies.  I've become so hardnosed I won't help anyone who doesn't have a
manual.  What does this say about the widely-heard theory that piracy
exists because software is low-quality or overpriced?  (Aside:  students
have told me that their instructors have told them not to bother buying
the package!  I find it amusing that universities are way behind the
business community in standards of ethics...)

-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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