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In article <810@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) writes:
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>Users don't like restrictive copy protection schemes, vendors don't
>like piracy.
>
>All in all, piracy is winning hands down, and the users are suffering
>for it, whether they know it or not.  Prices for software are still
>high because of piracy.
>
>It might inconvenience you to not be able to copy and use software
>on several machines, or at home. It's also inconvenient for you to
>photocopy a book and bind it so you can have a copy at home and at work.
>If you could make an identical copy of a book as easily as you can make
>an identical copy of a piece of software, books would probably cost
>$500 too.
>
>Users are responsible for piracy, and users are the ones who suffer when

    In my experience, reasonably priced software tends to not have the
    Piracy problems that unreasonably priced software does.  Unfortunately,
    from the user-who-might-be-pirate's point of view, just about all the
    commercial software available for the NeXT is unreasonably priced. I've
    seen things for sale for the NeXT that have been giveaways for years on
    other machines.

    (This is as one who has had a very sucessful shareware distribution on
    thte Amiga for several years now)

>It will be a good day for everyone, and we should all look forward to it
>and do our part to help.  All software developers are users, too.

    Yup.

					    -Matt

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