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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
Message-ID: <3816@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 09:03:38 GMT
References: <21754@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <229@wright.EDU> <4799@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1891@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Lines: 32
Keywords: Microsoft/\good programming = false
Summary: major blast at AmigaBASIC authors

In article <1891@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>> In article <229@wright.EDU>, jholbach@wright.EDU (Jim Holbach) writes:
>> > 	I don't have a problem with copy protected programs either
>> > because I don't buy them and I encourage others to do the same.
>> Ditto!
>> > And obviously a lot more people feel the same since the use of copy
>> > protection is on the decline. It's *amazing* how that evil capitalist
>> > market-place :-) responds to the desires of the buyer rather than the seller
>> > when there's enough competition.
>> Just one problem: is there enough competition? 
>> It seems to me that Microsoft could stomp on almost anyone simply by
>> flooding the market.
>> 
>> 	Johan Larson
>
>Yeah, but they would have to flood the market with well-written, bug-free
>software.  This will not happen in our lifetime.
>
>And I use Microsoft Word, C5.0, Microsoft Assembler, PC-DOS, and Windows.
>
>Clayton E. Cramer


They would have to ENTER the market with ..., which from the evidence
will also not happen in our lifetime.  The only company whose job ad
in misc.jobs.offered I ever answered with "I wouldn't want my good
name (such as it is) sullied by the association."

[The best way to not feed inews insertion counter is to yank the code and
recompile inews.  We did.]

Kent, the man from xanth.