Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered ... another Vogon success story

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <jeff-D77D29.17413902072000@nntp.cts.com>,
Jeff Jungblut  <jeff@nospam.soapzone.com> wrote:
 
> In article <8jod24$kq$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul 
> Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>> Another activity to fight piracy is to try to make software available
>> legally for free.  If a legal and free software alternative is
>> available, then it becomes uninteresting to try to pirate a software
>> product.
> 
> Er, what?  I don't know anyone who uses pirated A2 software for *fun* or 
> because it's *more interesting.*  It's used because (a) it may perform 
> whatever functions the user wants to perform, and (b) it's no longer 
> available for sale.
 
You can deal with (b) in two ways:
 
1. Contact the original author and ask if it's now OK to redistribute
his program for free -- like I did with the authors of S-C Assembler
and Flash!
 
2. Find another, equivalent, piece of software which can be redistributed
for free, legally.
 
 
> People may have lots of different reasons for using unlicensed A2 
> software, but *sport* really isn't one of the believable ones.
 
Then how come uncracked A-II games quite often bears a note saying
something like  "Cracked by <some_name>" ?
 
And since the vast majority of Apple II software were games, the
focus of the typical Apple II user clearly was entertainment rather
than usefullness.
 
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