| From: | Xavier Messersmith |
| Date: | 2 May 2000 at 07:37:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Installing OS3.5 on A4000T (woof) |
On 01-May-00, Alan W. Rateliff, II wrote:
> On 02-May-00, Xavier Messersmith wrote:
>> Noone is profiting off this, noone would be making any substantial
>> if this site wasn't here, and I haven't seen anyone in any
>> hurt or do something about it care.
>
> That's exactly the point.
You didn't even read the second part of that first sentence did you?
> *NO ONE* is profitting from this, including the
> people who should.
The people who should would probably about break even if they tried selling
OS1.3 disks.
> What happens when software is distributed behind the back
> of the owner/developer/copywriter?
This site isn't a big secret.
> Developers stop developing, distributors
> stop distributing, and the community at large suffers.
The world stops rotating and the residual inertia of all the bodies on it rips
them off the planet and into the gravity of the sun. Gotcha.
> Sure, perhaps M$ sales is not bothered much by the pirating that is
> inflicted on their software, but we're not that big, and we can be killed by
> it.
A very slim few would pay anything horribly decent for a copy of the WB2.05
disk set.
And as I mentioned last post, this is not the forum to discuss it. If you
don't like it email the site owner to take it down and failing that, go
complain to someone who can pull the plug.
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