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aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:

>software marketer sells 1000 packages for the said price. I'd not
>be  bothered  if  he  sold  some  more  for  the  benefit  of his
>shareholders, but if he sells 3000 packages, he has cheated  each
>of  his customers at least as badly as the programmer who charges
>a customer for work that he did during time he was  paid  for  by
>another customer.

One problem.  If the company sells just 500 packages, do they then have
the right to go back and demand a second payment from those 500 users?

I expect software companies DO base there prices on the expected
number of items sold (and too, the price feedback... until they
find the profit-optimal price).  Sometimes they might win out,
other times they lose.

Piracy is the problem.  But it isn't a problem with the users - the
problem isn't "People are too dishonest".  The problem is "Software
is easy to copy".  You'll not easily change either of these factors.
All you can hope to do is make them irrelevant... through copylefted,
or shareware software.

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