Re: WHO???

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Herbert Fung writes ...
> 
> In <37B1170D.328134BB@swbell.net>, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:
> 
> >     What are you and Herbert talking about? No one "pirates" shareware or
> >freeware.
> 
> There have been instances when shareware has been 'edited' by another
> party and taking credit for it, and also full versions of shareware have
> been 'released' by pirates.
 ....

     There is at least one case where someone edited a piece of shareware to try to
make it appear that someone else had changed it. The attempt was pretty sorry and
was exposed; but, this did not prevent claims that the victim of the attempt had
done the editing.

     Such things happen from time to time. Cracking of partially disabled and
time-limited shareware is fairly common for PC products. The point is that such
messing with Apple II shareware, freeware, etc. is detected and dealt with by Csa2
and by the archives.

     As far as I know, Apple II is the only platform which has a body of users
which allows developers to declare some product as "shareware" and yet restrict
distribution.

     We want users to develop software and we extend exceptional privileges and
protections to encourage software production. This really is a very
developer-friendly environment.



Rubywand