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- From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
- Message-ID: <uerics.712555841@mcl>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 04:10:41 GMT
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- I'm very disappointed that SoundSmith 1.0 was killed -- I was waiting for
- 1.0 to come out so I could buy it. I have some of the shareware prerelease
- versions, but was waiting for the final version before buying it, since there
- were some problems with the early versions of it.
-
- Piracy sucks. That's easy enough. Piracy sucks because, regardless of
- what your econo-poliitical views are, we live in a nearly totally capitalist
- society. Jawaid's right: it ain't always pretty, andd it definitely doesn't
- always make sense, and it's often unfair, buut so far it's the best economic
- structure the human race has come up with, and we have to deal with it.
- That means paying for products that aren't free -- in other words, just about
- everything.
-
- A lot of people release their software as "public domain", "freeware", or
- "shareware". Thus far, the majority of my work has been in these categories.
- Thhose who enjoy copying programs -- go for it! This stuff is _meant_ to be
- passed around.
-
- On the other hand, those who enjoy _piracy_ can go soak their heads in
- a public toilet... which they've been doing all along.
-
- - Eric S.
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- Eric D. Shepherd | ACM Member | Apple II Alliance Charter Member |
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