Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!liovax.DEC.COM!craparotta
From: craparotta@liovax.DEC.COM (Physical T5--Virtual T7)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Piracy Etc...
Message-ID: <8905252207.AA25390@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 25 May 89 22:07:51 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 18


	
Well now that I've looked at alot of this stuff I can also put in my $.02
worth. 

Although I don't condone piracy, I do feel that alot of the software companies
are overstating the losses they incur. Having know alot of pirates when I first
started with my Apple 7yrs ago, I must point out that most of them were UNDER
17 yrs old and really just collected the programs like I collected baseball 
cards when I was younger. They NEVER used the stuff anyway... ALthough games
did seem to be used heavily. Now I would think that they should ALSO go after
the Corporate Pirates. They are the ones who hurt the most. The copy the documentation and the program! 

Before all the software programers and companies start flaming me, all I can say
IS CLEAN UP YOUR OWN ACT FIRST!!!!!!! The shrinkwrap law and the non SUPPORT
or you bought it.. its yours is nothing more than a scapegoat for you... I don'tfeel sorry at all for you... I would like applaud (sp) both Claris and Wordperfect though. The support they give out of the norm....	
	
Joe