Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!panda!teddy!jpn
From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Keywords: copy protection piracy
Message-ID: <4780@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 17:32:55 GMT
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>people whom actually NEED a piece of software usually end up buying 
>it.  if for nothing else than to rag on the company who wrote it
>when something goes wrong ;-)

Gee, I don't know.  This isn't ALWAYS true.  A simple counterexample:
MSDOS.  I'll bet that there are a LOT of pirate copies of this
operating system out there.  And you NEED it, or your computer system
won't run.

If I ever decide to upgrade from DOS 3.1, I'll probably use a pirated
copy.  Why?  Because:  #1:  Microsoft/IBM did not provide any way for me to
upgrade my legitimate copy of DOS at a reasonable price, and #2:  I
don't expect to get any SUPPORT from Microsoft no matter HOW loudly I
complain.  At the moment, I'm sorry that I paid good money to upgrade
from DOS 2.11!

-- 
     john nelson

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