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From: prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Lack of games for the GS
Message-ID: <987@tahoma.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 20:07:39 GMT
Organization: The Boeing Co., BCA FSL, Seattle, WA
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> In-Reply-To: message from Mark Munz

> > In-Reply-To: message from cs122dc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
> >I have to agree with you, to some extent not allowing people 
> >to place programs on hard drives is a pain, but you have to look 
>  [...]

>  [...]
> Second.. what about the customer. I'd been really p'd if, after buying
> a $200 program (AppleWorks), I found it was copy protected. This is
> especially the case for productivity software.  Beagle Bros puts 
> trust in the customer. We won't waste (and I do consider copy protection
> a waste of efforts) our time trying to keep you from copying and all
> h1UMQ=5IBM"="=JMr=Q:%Y]e6kA%M9j|
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   What happened here?

> Third.. Copy protection does affect overall performance -- because it
> causes the user so much hassle that he ends up using something else, or
> because he can't put software on a larger medium to increase performance.

I am one who appreciates good s/w, and I want to support s/w developers,
but I have found that when I purchase a program with copy protection
(especially that prevents it from running with the latest GSOS), I just
don't use it much.

> For those interested -- I have made it my own personal policy that I
> will never buy (or use -- since I'm not a pirate) copy protected software.
> Mark Munz
 
I use to buy a lot of s/w that was protected, and I didn't care since I
was booting their disk anyway.  But now that I have a hard drive I have
second thoughts when it's protected.  I still want to buy the s/w, but
it's got to be really good to put up with the hassle.

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