Re: don't forget the subject here. my 2c worth

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>]

Unless you are a serious pirate who thinks that =everything= should be
free, your post was ill-informed. You post does seem to glory in your old
kracking days, so maybe you are. I dunno.

I agree with you on long-out-of-print software, but the recent discussion
you are referring to addressed comparatively-recently-released commercial
software that is still being sold commercially by fools who think they are
entitled to a couple of bucks for their (recent!) hard work.

The other reply I saw, from Richard, is so hard assed because he is one of
the software authors being ripped off for stuff that he has written and
released in the recent past.

I've seen it said that if Microsoft could reduce pirating by 10% they would
double their revenues. The Apple II community is too small to support =any=
pirating of new software. There is no better way to kill the trickle off
all together.

TomZ


rmtmaine <rmtmaine@texhoma.net> wrote in article
<33ED7006.42D0C55D@texhoma.net>...
> Cant we all just get along and trade stuff in peace.
> 
>     Then I found comp.sys.apple2 and about ten guys with sticks up there
> asses about some 20 year old pirated software. All that should be said,
> is who gives a rats ass. I was 15 when I got my first apple 2 in the
> late 70's, and if you think that I didn't xerox a few programs back then
> you're loopy. I still have some of it, and it still works just as well
> as it did the day I copied it.
> 
>     Back in the good old days I had several disks of copying software:
> Locksmith, and Copy 2 Plus, and Quick & Dirty, and Nibbles Away, and on
> and on. We did it then, we do it now. They sold the copy programs to
> teens, like giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys and telling them
> not to do anything foolish. The first thing we did was copy the copy
> program and give it to a buddy.   
>  
>     Only now things are different, there are but a few, we are a
> minuscule minority of computer users programming and using 20 year old
> stuff that few people seem to remember.
> 
>     For god sakes, just copy the stuff and chalk it up to one more
> person getting a bit of use out of something. I think copying a piece of
> apple 2 software today isn't going to amount to a hill of beans. This
> stuff was all written off years ago. I've even got Macintosh software
> that wont work on anything higher than system 5 that I'd be glad to copy
> for you with absolutely no sense of remorse. If a company is unwilling
> to support the software, then let the users "public domain" it. Stick it
> on an FTP site.
> 
>     This is the Apple 2 we are discussing here, let's not forget that,
> and in the beginning all software wanted to be free. We harnessed it for
> a while, and now it is time to put it out to pasture.
> 
> Jeffrey
> 
> RmTMaine@texhoma.net
> 
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