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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Bilestoad
- Message-ID: <h5dmpaj.payner@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:36:57 GMT
- References: <d0QW03gx3d6f00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <+wdmzp_.payner@netcom.com> <1992Jul21.155734.9934@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.155734.9934@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> ejohnson@sparc3.cs.uiuc.edu (Eric E Johnson) writes:
- >In <+wdmzp_.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>Wait a minute, he was robbed by the publisher. He did not profit from
- >>the copy's that were -sold-. This is not a piracy issue.
- >
- >When I talked with Marc via email, he said that there were only about
- >1600 copies sold. But, I would be willing to bet that there were over
- >20,000 copies out there. I know, I had one of them. I felt so guilty
- >about it, that I sent him a check for pirating the game. I suggest
- >others do the same.
-
- You deleted the text that I was responding to. The publisher did not pay
- the author for the copies of bilestoad that it sold. THIS is why he has
- not written any more games for the A//. This is not a piracy issue.
-
- You have changed the subject, and deleted the text that would make this
- clear. And why is your 20,000 copy -guess- any better than the hundred
- billion dollar losses claimed by the software industry? They have a vested
- interest in making the number as high as possible, and I do not trust
- their numbers. Now if you actually went out and counted them...
-
- >>As for the maps, unless they were published in the manual (which I rather
- >>doubt), then they are the creations of whomever compiled them, and they
- >>do have the right to post them. What good are the maps without the game?
- >
- >I got all the way to the uncharted islands without the maps...
-
- This says nothing about the value/problem of maps. Do you want to be
- congratulated or what? Again you deleted the text whixh I was responding to
- which claimed that the maps should not have been posted.
-
- You and I are talking about completely different things. Why this
- was posted as a response to my post is a mystery to me.
-
- >--
- >Eric E Johnson | "For a successful technology, reality must
- >ejohnson@a.cs.uiuc.edu | take precedence over public relations, for
- >eej37047@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
-
- Rich
-
- payner@netcom.com
-