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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <noah-040193095748@noah.apple.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:04:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.165626.293@physc1.byu.edu> <1992Dec18.124705.11418@tdb.uu.se>
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- In article <1992Dec18.124705.11418@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) wrote:
- > Hm ... I can remember the good old days when I was still a student. We used to
- > pirate a lot of software. Of course, no one of us could afford buying MS Word
- > or Excel or something like that, so I don't think the software companies lost
- > any money on this.
-
- Yah, people use that argument for shoplifting as well... I picked up MS
- Word at the educational price of about $99 when I was in school. Just a
- little more than the price of two textbooks, and useful for a heck of a lot
- more classes!
-
- noah
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