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- From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Subject: Re: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.211315.5295@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:13:15 GMT
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- msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
-
- >I am GLAD that the beta was removed from hobbes. The last thing developers
- >want to see is blatent breaches of copyright even for beta software. If this
- >had been allowed to continue then IBM may have decided to return to the pre
- >World wide DAP beta test mode. If you know somebody with a CD-ROM then pay
- >$15 to get the CD and copy the disks. The other option is to ask nicely
- >somebody in your local area who has the beta to make a copy for you from
- >thier allowed 10 copies. My company is currently only using 5 of my alloted
- >10 copies. ( The rest are however already allocated )
-
- >Please support the devlopment efforts of developers large and small BUY
- >software that you use and pay the poor souls who write shareware otherwise
- >they will stop developing software.
-
- >Martin P. Smith
- >netcom.com
-
- >Software Piracy is a fancy phrase for STEALING
-
- I don't think that anyone is arguing that software piracy is OK Martin.
- Some people would just like to get the beta into there hands and try it
- out without dropping a grand for a CD drive. It is a beta and I can't
- believe anyone would use the beta (with the massive debug code slowdown
- and bugs) in leiu of 2.1 at the price it will probably sell for. I would
- think that it would be good business for IBM to get it in as many hands as
- possible.
-
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