Re: Why do people pirate software?

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From: Charles K Hughes
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1990 23:42

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Bill Marsh writes....

>In article <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> alanf@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Gran
>t Finlay) writes:
>>I suggest this is too close to the truth for comfort.  What we should really 
>do
>>is ban the copyright of software altogether.  Over the past few years I have
>>seen more harm than good come out of software copyrightability.
>
>Please name a couple of examples where a copyrighted program has caused
>problems for someone other than someone with a legal licence.

  Hmmm...SEA vs Philip Katz, Apple vs Microsoft, Lotus vs Paperback, etc.

  Flame...how long have you been in Timbuktoo? :)

  SEA vs Philip Katz - I believe this was actually a trademark battle [do you
know that using the ARC(TM) logo as a file extender is illegal? ]
  Apple vs Microsoft - Microsoft licensed the MAC interface, Apple got ticked
when they used it for Windows & PM.
  Lotus vs Paperback - look and feel crapola (some merit to this suit, but
so little that the suit did a great deal more harm to the community at
large than Paperback did to Lotus).

Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com

Disclaimer: ARC (TM) is trademarked by SEA [illegally I might add, but since
no judge will agree with me...]

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