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- From: jreid@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Joe Reid)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.d
- Subject: Re: CFD: public display of piracy
- Message-ID: <BxHM2w.5n4@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:30:32 GMT
- References: <POLLACK.92Nov9135541@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Distribution: misc
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- pollack@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) writes:
-
- >Can we do anything to stop people from trying to inflate the value of
- >their used computers by advertising harddisks "full of software" worth
- >"thousands of dollars"?
-
- >We KNOW they are keeping the original software and manuals.
-
- >How about when someone sells old software without manuals or old
- >versions which have been upgraded...
-
- >While I personally would like to redefine software piracy to mean the
- >prices charged by software monopolies, for the time being watching all
- >these messages go by feels like aiding and abetting.
-
- >Or maybe I'm wrong and its just a free speech issue???
-
-
- I've sold 2 machine on the net, and had a friend buy one, in all 3 cases
- the machines were advertised "hard drive loaded with software." And in
- all 3 cases the original disks and manuals were included. Now in my 2
- cases I was getting rid of a complete system, not an extra one, so it
- was to my advantage to be rid of all of the software, but the machine
- that my friend bought may not have been, we'll never know. What pisses
- me off more than software pirates is holy and righteous people who
- assume that the public is trying to cheat someone (the publisher or the
- buyer in this case).
-
- Moral: don't assume....
-
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