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From: nor1675@dsacg2.UUCP (Michael Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (Was: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Summary: Honest Europeans, Shareware
Message-ID: <154@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 11:54:59 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <971@uop.edu>
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In article <971@uop.edu>, exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer) writes:
> 
> Shareware is a great concept except for one small detail.  It relies on
> the honesty of the participants.  In European countries, that wouldn't be
> so bad (at least from my experiences...I have lived in Europe for 13 years).
> In America, piracy has turned the software (and even the hardware industry
> with IBM PC clones) industry inside out.  ..........
> 
> Shareware as a concept has been introduced.  Don't knock it.

     I can't agree more with the concept of shareware. I think that it is
     great that programmers release their efforts to the honor system,
     caring more about producing worthwhile software than how much they
     are going to make on it.

     As far as the honest europeans goes though I beg to differ. It seems that 
     much of the pirated software that I have seen (not my own, of course!) has
     been cracked in europe. And where do think the Swiss Cracking Association
     is from. I just read this morning in a recent copy of AC that the new
     revision to PageSetter was pass-word protected because european dealers
     would not sell it without protection because of the problem with piracy
     in europe. Of course we are not quite perfect here either yet :-).


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