Re: Cnet Article on Abandonware

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Any authority or documentation for either of these statements?


"Arkain" <rwking@usa.nospam.net> wrote in message
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> JUST A POINT OF NOTE:
>
> If it wasn't for "Mr. Average Home User" giving copies of
Windows(original)
> to their friends and "sharing" the software through BBS's, Windows
wouldn't
> be quite as big as it is today. The initial reason that Windows had so
many
> installations is that it was pirated from the beginning, just as current
> copies of the OS are. M$ actually owes the pirates for making it so
> prolific. That's the effect of "small scale copying... by home users."
>
> As bad a crime as it is to do this, companies actually profit from piracy
to
> a certain degree,