Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsc!kimes
From: kimes@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST S/ware Rental Places
Message-ID: <13404@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 90 16:23:57 GMT
References: <28201@brunix.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <28201@brunix.UUCP>, by rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo):
> 
> The reason I can say this is because I have attended ST User Group
> meetings in three different communities. In all three cases, the
> scene is entirely the same: a brief meeting is held, some software
> is demoed, then what can only be described as an orgy of software
> piracy begins. Its mallicious, its organized, and its massive.

I find this very hard to believe.  I belong to a Users Group (LAUG)
in St. Charles, IL (west of Chicago).  We are extremely anti-piracy.
There are no copyrighted programs in our Library and we do not
allow any to be brought to the meetings or exchanged there.  I know
that the policy at SCAT (another Chicago users group) is the same.

I would be naive to think that no one there has these type of 
programs at home, but they are not brought or discussed at any of
our meetings.  I just can't imagine there are very many Atari User
Groups that condone such activity.  Are you sure that you aren't
a MS-DOSer trying to spread rumors?

Kit Kimes
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL
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