Apple IIs and Legal profit (Turley vs Reality again)

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <339D9241.14A1@grin.net>,
Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley <cturley@grin.net> wrote:
[snippage accusing Joe Kohn of making an $]
>If anybody has ripped anybody off it's Joe Kohn ripping off the
>Apple II community with his efforts to make a fast buck under the
>table - to pay for his next 'Who' concert.

   Even though you're a drugged out hippie from one of the most
left-wing areas of the West Coast, there is NOTHING wrong with making
a legal buck in the US. [Yes, you do live in the state of California,
USA, though your mind appears to be in the state of denial]

   Profit has driven the Apple II since the beginning. Would Apple
have succeded and prospered had the owners been losing right from the
start?  Would Apple have continued to see the Apple II if they didn't
make a killing selling overpriced boxes? Would many thousands of
software developers have embarked on huge project if there wasn't the
hope of $ at the end? Would the software developers have stuck with
the Apple II even though piracy and a declining market made it not
worth their while?

   $ is what drives this world, like it or not. And you're the one
who's made ILLEGAL money off the Apple II, starting from the times
you've admitted to selling pirated Appleworks for your crack
habit. You're the slime ripping off real developers and the public,
and now you have the idiocy to claim that making money is
wrong. You're just jealous that Joe Kohn *CAN* make money, have
friends, and popularity by providing quality goods, services and
information, while your efforts land you a whack with the clue-by-four
trying to knock some sense into a vapid and pitiful existence.

   So you compensate for your jealousy of the upright, honest and
successful by trying to pirate, reducing everything to the highest
price you could afford: zero. Along with idiots like Steve Mentos(tm),
your hatred of those able to make a living bubbles over into your
total disregard for copyrights, thinking that "help" is to backstab
honest developers by giving away the software they have said is
commercial.

   Find another damp rock to slither under and go away for good, as
you've promised to do. Do that before the bile you're building up
against the real developers overflows again and you pirate more stuff
or do something else stupid.

   Kansasfest is full of real developers doing real work, like
planning the next killer app-- Spectrum Internet Suite was born there
last year.  Turkeyfest will be a lot of pirating, whining, and
complaining, without enough of a collective clue among all the
participants to stop drooling from both sides of your mouths when your
heads are level. It's clear where the *REAL* work and Apple II
enthusiasm and community is, and where those in the gutter fighting
over the table scraps are.

Nathan Mates
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