Re: Piracy of software

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From: Secret Mud
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:56

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From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
>In <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:
>
>>The people I see stealing
>>pc software are usually honest enough to admit that their motive is
>>greed, not some lofty aspiration to make the world a better place :-)
>
>Most people I see selling software are  honest  enough  to  admit
>exactly the same...
>
>Greetinx, Jan
>
> +- Jan Kim -- X.400:    S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
> |             Internet: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de               |
> |                                                                   |
> *----=<  hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans  >=-----*

Honest pay for a day's work isn't greed.  If half the copies of my software
are stolen, then 50% of my day is spent supporting thieves.  The answer to
high prices/low quality is to not use the software--not to use it without
paying for it.

If information and software should flow freely, then who's going to pay my
rent?

 - Ron Sharp.

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Subject: Re: Piracy of software
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