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- From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <MELLON.93Jan5234201@pepper.ncd.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 07:42:01 GMT
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- In-reply-to: siegel@world.std.com's message of 5 Jan 93 15:34:03 GMT
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- >By way of example a simple piece of molded plastic may only cost a few
- >cents to produce, but the cost to design and produce the tool to make
- >it can (and often does) run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
-
- Another fallacy. The cost of the plastic part may be only ten cents,
- but you'd have to steal the mold in order to make copies of it.
- Again, by contrast, there is no expensive mold that is required to
- make a piece of software - it's just bits, and they're easy to copy -
- you don't steal anything from the software vendor except the
- opportunity to sell to you. I'm not saying that that's right, but I
- am saying that the two concepts you're trying to equate are in fact
- distinct.
-
- _MelloN_
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