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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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: <1891@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 17:13:24 GMT
References: <21754@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <229@wright.EDU> <4799@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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> 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