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From: cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Illegal copies of Dev. Kit
Message-ID: <859@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 23:49:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 23:49:35 1986
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Keywords: what is being done


	I purposly posted the message about the developers kit being
sold for $50.00 with a "open" type of attitude.

These people are ripping us and Atari off!  With all of the scuttle-butt and 
hoop-de-rah over 'Breakout', I thought that the posting would get more
notice with the users of the net.  Maybe no one really cares!  I hope
not.  If these people continue to sell product that is obviously stolen
from some "developer" and we as users knowingly buy the product, then we
are a guilty as they are.  In court that is known as being an accessory
to the fact.  Sure, $300.00 is a lot of money, but so is MAC65, ACTION!,
and BASIC-XL for the 8 bit line.  Those packages sell for $65.00 and 
the machines they run on cost about $65.00.  If Atari chose to price the
Dev. Kit the same way, then it would cost $800.00!  True the docs are
a little vague and need re-writing, but the .h files are the important
files and are required reading for anyone doing development work.  What
can one person do?  I suppose that letters to these companies would really
do the trick.  I think that if just a few of us wrote and said the unless 
they stopped selling the software IMMEDIATELY, we would write the Attorney
General in their state, and report that they are selling stolen and
pirated software.  If just a few of us would do that then this type 
of blatent piracy would end quickly.

  And then people wonder why software companies (legit ones) refuse 
to write software for the Atari.
 


If you want to flame me go ahead.  I don't care, and it won't make a 
pair of fretted dingo's kidneys to me.



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