Re: Piracy of software

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From: Kenneth L Love
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:26

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Here's something that may be interesting to the readers' of this subject.

Someone I know is getting Word Perfect for his Tandy computer.  As seems
to be typical in the IBM world, he's getting it from a friend.

The interesting thing (at least to me) is that he didn't even know that
it was illegal!  He had never heard of 'piracy' (or for that matter 'share-
ware').

*IF* he is a typical IBM user then it is no wonder that Atari is not doing
so good.  At least Atarians are knowledgable enough to know that copying
copyrighted material is illegal (in general OK?! I'm sure everybody can
point fingers toward some Atari owner who doesn't know about this.).

Apparently, some kind of education of the general public needs to be
implemented.  Anybody got some ideas?

BTW, I don't think I convinced him not to pirate WP.  At least he now knows
it's wrong and maybe his conscience will get the better of him one day.

                                                  Adios,
                                                  Kenneth Love

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