🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <51087@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:

   In spite of the fact that I've seen many sales of software packages
   based on piracy (theft if you prefer), and I've seen many failures
   of software packages to live up to even their features lists, let
   alone marketing claims, software IS being stolen by current
   definitions.  In most industries, the manufacturer has the
   advantage, in the early history of that industry.  It may well be
   that when regulations are improved and enforced on BOTH sides of
   the license, what is currently termed "theft" will be merely "trial
   period" use of the software.

Perhaps, but I doubt it.  Software houses don't make money by
encouraging people to use their software without paying for it.  A
better idea would be for companies to produce demo versions of their
software and make them available for people to "test drive".

However, the point is not what we would like in the future; the point
is what people are doing right now, and whether that is right or
wrong.  

By the way, I look forward to taking Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" for a
"test view" tonight.  Most critics have praised it, but there's really
no way of knowing whether it's worth paying for until you've actually
seen it, right?

--
   Steve Baumgarten             | "New York... when civilization falls apart,
   Davis Polk & Wardwell        |  remember, we were way ahead of you."
   baumgart@esquire.dpw.com     | 
   cmcl2!esquire!baumgart       |                           - David Letterman