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  2. From: hhuang@husc10.harvard.edu (Howard Huang)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
  4. Subject: Re: Bilestoad
  5. Message-ID: <HHUANG.92Jul23010243@husc10.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 08:02:43 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: husc10.HHUANG.92Jul23010243
  8. References: <1992Jul21.155734.9934@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> 
  9.  <h5dmpaj.payner@netcom.com><1992Jul21.215710.12912@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> <6vfmmzb.payner@netcom.com>
  10. Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
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  13. In-reply-to: payner@netcom.com's message of 22 Jul 92 14:19:29 GMT
  14.  
  15. payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
  16.  
  17.    >>And why is your 20,000 copy -guess- any better than the hundred
  18.    >>billion dollar losses claimed by the software industry? 
  19.    >>... I do not trust their numbers. 
  20.    >>Now if you actually went out and counted them...
  21.  
  22. payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) also writes:
  23.  
  24.    The
  25.    lost profits argument -assumes- that everyone who pirates a program could
  26.    afford to buy is (no lost profits otherwise). I suspect that most of the
  27.    time, this is not the case. 
  28.  
  29.    And I suspect that the claimed lost profits
  30.    exceed the expendable cash of the American public by an order of magnitude.
  31.  
  32. Before saying Eric Johnson's "guesses" are unfounded, have you counted
  33. the numbers to support your "suspicions"?
  34.  
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  40. |   Howard C. Huang                     Internet:  hhuang@husc.harvard.edu   |
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