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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
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Date: 12 Dec 88 14:32:00 GMT
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In article <1334@leah.Albany.Edu>, jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:
> In article <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
> > All it takes is ONE company that doesn't cripple their products -- and all
> > of the cripple-ware firms' business dries up overnight.
> Yep, even though they may be the better software company...
> 
The cripple-ware company writes programs that don't run at all on my hardware.
The non-cripple-ware company writes programs that do run on my hardware.
Yup, the cripple-ware company writes better software for me to use.  Yup.

Methinks you aren't paying attention to something...
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