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From: pcsigler@whale.st.usm.edu (Peter C. Sigler)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DOOM II Thoughts
Date: 3 Sep 1994 19:54:01 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
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Jason V Robertson (jr7877@eehpx12) wrote:
: But you are _wrong_ in saying it doesn't hurt Software companies when people
: pirate software. It doesn't hurt _BIG_ companies with _expensive_ programs.
: That is true. I mean if you are using a $3000+ program that you would NEVER
: have bought it doesn't hurt them. No big company or any person who really
: profits from an expensive piece of software would pirate it.
: But pirates _do_ hurt software companies who produce low cost software.
: Games, Utilities, Word Processors, Operating Systems (sometimes.. I doubt
: they could hurt IBM!). If ID sells 500,000 copies and there are 100,000
: pirate copies that _does_ hurt them.
: So pay the lousy $50-60 and let id make a bigger, better version.
Hmmmm.... I don't think pirates have hurt id too much. I mean, DOOM is one
of the best games out. People want it.
Hmmm... well, come to think of it, if there were no pirates in the world
instead of reading about how many Testarosas (blah sp?) each person from
id owns and has endangered the lives of pedestrains with by wrecking them
by driving wildly, we would be reading "John Romero buys Florida...AND
CRASHES IT TO HELL THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!" Nah... I think they got plenty
out of DOOM to have the kind of money flying around to put into uselessly
expensive sportscars.
Hehehe.... There's my $1.10.
Peter Sigler
<pcsigler@whale.st.usm.edu>