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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Piracy << WARNING: SEVERE FLAMES AHEAD >>
Message-ID: <1409@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 19:28:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 15 19:28:58 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Apr-86 01:09:50 EST
References: <1844@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: Rationalizer!

What a wonderful rationalization.  "If software were cheaper, I
wouldn't have to compromise my morals and I'd buy more, pirate less."
All the people I know who pirate software do so regardless of the price
and/or immorality.  Piraters don't care whether they save $10 or $100.
To them, the immorality cost of pirating is zero; and the authors and
marketers of software "deserve" ZERO profit.  Some software developer
this flamer is;  I doubt that he is currently making a living selling
Amiga software at Commodore 64 prices.

If you can't live with the market forces which drive the price of
Amiga software, go back to an inferior but more "mature" machine.
Prices for Amiga software *are* high.  This is because of two factors.
Presently the market is starved for software: there are few choices,
and enough people have enough money to pay these prices.  And there are
few total buyers.  Those programs the flamer talks about, selling better
than books, are NOT Amiga programs (yet)!  Amigaware *will* drop in price,
as these factors weaken.

	Once you start down that path,
	it will control your destiny forever...
	Charles Poirier