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From: jkrutz@meta.burner.com (Jamie Krutz)
To: lightwave-l@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Axiom Software
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950117211157.22545B-100000@crl5.crl.com> Carl Andrew Johnson <cjohnson@crl.com> writes:
> Axiom and ASDG no longer write software for the Amiga. Now I have a
> moral question for you? Since they no longer are concerned with the Amiga
> market, is it okay to pirate Axiom and ASDG software? How can such an act
> deprive them of revenues if they don't WANT any revenues from the Amiga
> market.
Your logic is incomplete. It states a common rationalization. You're
missing two key points.
They put a lot of effort into creating their software and they deserve
to be rewarded for that effort - that's the way the system is supposed
to work. If you still want their software it's because of the work they
_already_ did, and that's what you're paying for.
If you don't want to pay for the work they already did, and you wouldn't buy
ADPro with that in mind, then you ought to buy a program that is still being
supported, like ImageFX. If you pirate ADPro instead of buying
ImageFX, then you are not only ripping off Elastic Reality, you are
taking a sale from Nova Design. Thus the rationalization that pirating
ADPro isn't stealing (which it still is) ends up also hurting a company
that _is_ still concerned with the Amiga market.
By pirating ADPro, you are at the same time stealing from one company
and directly hurting the Amiga market for another.
This same piracy rationalization has hurt the Amiga in the past. I've
met people who liked the Amiga and thought it was a better computer
but bought clones because they could "get all the software free at
work." Besides ripping off the owners of word perfect, etc., this
attitude directly hurt the Amiga market and every innovative developer
who was providing better solutions on a better computer platform and
was not rewarded for that effort.
Piracy hurts innovation. Piracy hurts the Amiga. Piracy rips off
developers and hurts those working hard to offer viable
alternatives. Logically, it's not OK. Morally, if you accept the free
market system and want to be paid for what you do, ripping off
someone else's work is hypocrital.
Sorry to waste list bandwidth on this. Just to tie it to Lightwave
I would say that anyone who pirated Lightwave using LRave and
a stolen copy of LightWave was, in addition to ripping off NewTek,
Allen and Stuart, also directly hurting those providing an alternative,
like the makers of Imagine, Alladin, Caligari, etc.
Regards,
-Jamie