Re: NATHAN MATES - You should read this now...

[swhite@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu (Steve White)]

In article <540ppk$ap@client3.news.psi.net>, smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve
Mentzer) wrote:

> We also had to deal with an "arrogant" apple computer who charged us 
> outrageous prices for hardware and software. It was also their corporate
> attitude that dumped the Apple IIgs line "just when it was getting good".


So why did you stick with Apple? What Apple did is called the free market.
They charged what people would pay. Since when is that a problem?


> Fine, I admit that I am not paying for software that could have been bought
> 7 years ago, but cant be bought now. Try getting a copy of Bard's Tale I 
> from electronic arts. Try getting a copy of ACOS or GBBS *anywhere*. 


The point, of course, is that you are taking something that belongs to others.

If you think the copyright holders don't care anymore, why don't you ask
them? Ask them to reclassify the software as freeware. Ask them to put it
into the public domain.

Until then, your "reasons" are the sort of feeble excuses common to
schoolchildren.


> Most of the companies that used to develop this software are now defunct or 
> they do not support the Apple II line. I would venture to say that a company
> that *has* survived the ages and moved onto other platforms doesn't care that
> a handful of apple II users who mainly use PC's and Mac's download a copy
> of a software product that they propably dont even have current knowledge of.


Ask them if they care. You might be surprised.


> I am so tired of hearing you ramble on about piracy. For every 10 products 
> that I pirated when I was 13 years old, I bought 1. THAT IS BECAUSE I DIDN'T
> HAVE ANY MONEY THEN.


So you are a thief of long standing.


> Just to let you know. If you shut down asimov, I can and will replace it.


And you will continue to be a thief. Figures.

Once a thief, always a thief.





steve