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- From: hhuang@husc10.harvard.edu (Howard Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Bilestoad
- Message-ID: <HHUANG.92Jul23010243@husc10.harvard.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:02:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc10.HHUANG.92Jul23010243
- References: <1992Jul21.155734.9934@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In-reply-to: payner@netcom.com's message of 22 Jul 92 14:19:29 GMT
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
-
- >>And why is your 20,000 copy -guess- any better than the hundred
- >>billion dollar losses claimed by the software industry?
- >>... I do not trust their numbers.
- >>Now if you actually went out and counted them...
-
- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) also writes:
-
- The
- lost profits argument -assumes- that everyone who pirates a program could
- afford to buy is (no lost profits otherwise). I suspect that most of the
- time, this is not the case.
-
- And I suspect that the claimed lost profits
- exceed the expendable cash of the American public by an order of magnitude.
-
- Before saying Eric Johnson's "guesses" are unfounded, have you counted
- the numbers to support your "suspicions"?
-
-
-
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