Re: Cnet Article on Abandonware

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Arkain wrote in message ...
>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."


Arkain,
    If this is the effect that piracy has, then you are about to completely
change all my long-held opinions. This is awful. Maybe we should be
torturing pirates to death, or burning them at the stake. Sure, it's cruel
and barbarous, but if it only ever prevented another Windows, it would be
worth it. I had no idea. Forgive me God.

John Oyler
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jojo4@va.mediaone.net