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From: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Re: Piracy???? (Flame response)
Message-ID: <313@unm-cvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 19:58:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 19:58:57 1985
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Reply-To: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP (John Bigboote')
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>>From: district@ny1mm.DEC (1309@decwrl.UUCP)
>From: mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker)

>> I have around 500 disks worth of software [not yours I deleted it] and some

> And I bet you use it all, every day.  Let's see, 500 disks at about $5
> a pop...that's about $2500 you have invested in an inert software
> library.  I can see a real need for about 15 or 20 text editors, 5 or
> 6 spreadsheets, etc., and I'll bet you just have shelves and shelves
> of the documentation that makes it useful at all.
>
>  Larry Baker @ The University of Texas at Austin

First off, what disks do you use, Dysans?  $5 a pop?  Ick!  I buy Conroy-La
Pointes for $.99 each and double-side them.  Even if Doctor Vax uses Datalifes
(at ~$2 apiece in any decent discount store) his disks only cost him $1000.
Not all that much, really.

And as for the "15-20 text editors, 5 or 6 spreadsheets", you ignore the
pack-rat aspect of piracy -- many (most?) pirates are more software collectors
than anything else.  Do you question a Beatlemanic's 4-5 different pressings
of the same album on the grounds that "more than one is useless?"  Besides,
you don't need "shelves and shelves of documentation" for games, which is
what most pirates pirate.  Just boot and shoot.

(As for the legal aspects of it, well, that is another story which I
refuse to even touch upon in THIS posting...)

		.rne.