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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Piracy of software
- Message-ID: <11420@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 03:18:36 GMT
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- aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
-
- >software marketer sells 1000 packages for the said price. I'd not
- >be bothered if he sold some more for the benefit of his
- >shareholders, but if he sells 3000 packages, he has cheated each
- >of his customers at least as badly as the programmer who charges
- >a customer for work that he did during time he was paid for by
- >another customer.
-
- One problem. If the company sells just 500 packages, do they then have
- the right to go back and demand a second payment from those 500 users?
-
- I expect software companies DO base there prices on the expected
- number of items sold (and too, the price feedback... until they
- find the profit-optimal price). Sometimes they might win out,
- other times they lose.
-
- Piracy is the problem. But it isn't a problem with the users - the
- problem isn't "People are too dishonest". The problem is "Software
- is easy to copy". You'll not easily change either of these factors.
- All you can hope to do is make them irrelevant... through copylefted,
- or shareware software.
-
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- Warwick
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