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Nicholas Marshall Kramer <nk24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Remember, we're talking lost sales here. You can go on and on all you
>want about the morality of it, but a software company does not lose ONE
>CENT when someone pirates something they wouldn't have otherwise bought.
>(That's why companies aren't terribly reluctant to give out demo
>copies... Because the users wouldn't have actually bought it if they had
>to pay for it.)

Well... I know a few companies that actually buy packages, use them for a 
few days, and decide they can't use it. In this case they wouldn't have
bought it if they'd had a demo version. However I agree with you that a
software producer is better off in this case giving away the demo version:
they have a "satisfied customer" who knows that they don't make what they
need, instead of a dissatisfied customer who feels bad because they paid
for something they don't use.

					Roger.
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