Re: Steve Mentzer: Pirate. You are no longer welcome.

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

:    As I said before: those who pirate stuff from 10+ years ago are
: damn likely to pirate the latest software. How much revenue has he
: deprived Joe Kohn or The Byte Works of? [Tip: if there's to be any
: support by programmers, they need tools. And the person doing a heroic
: job producing these tools needs to earn a living.] There is no excuse
: to pirate stuff from 10+ years ago, and there is certainly NO EXCUSE
: WHATSOEVER to pirate what you can _BUY FROM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR_.


I am glad that this site is going to be closed, although I hate
sledge-hammer methods usually. But I think it was necessary here,too.

It may be one thing to copy 10 years old programs.
IT MAY BE ANOTHER THING TO COPY NEW PROGRAMS AND SCARE THE LAST
REMAINING II GS PROGRAMMERS!

It may be one thing to give a copy of a not-to-be-copied program to a
close friend, reminding him to buy the program soon.
IT MAY BE ANOTHER THING TO OFFER LOTS OF THESE STUFF ON THE NET!

Remember, most of then new A2gs programs (except for a few overpriced
ones like Animasia) cost only little money and give you a lot of bang
for your bucks. Convert3200 costs $15. Softdisk titles cost $10 and
are even cheaper in triple packs. Don't pirate these programs!

Thanks, Nathan. But don't get smug :)

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