Re: The software piracy issue

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Terry McDanel (tmcdan19@skypoint.com) wrote:

: I should also add this is covered territory in this group.  A lot of 
: people feel the opposite for good reason.  I respect that.  It is only 
: accademic for me anyway because like most people i'm not going to spend 
: my valuable time trying to figure how to upload Applewriter ][.  

Interesting you should mention that...
Years ago, I illicitly copied quite a few programs.  Shortly after making
my copies, I determined that I never used those programs, and fairly soon,
the disks were filled with other stuff.

There were a few exceptions to that general rule, which is why I bought
the Einstein Compiler and Fontrix.  In other words, someone made me a
copy, I liked it, I bought it.  Or, someone made me a copy, I didn't like
it, I erased it.  

Unfortunately, by the time I discovered Apple Writer ][e, it was
impossible to buy it.  I know.  I tried.  And tried.  And tried.  I could
buy all the copies of AppleWorks I wanted, but Apple Writer was *gone*. 
And I had never heard of "Internet".  So I used a pirated copy for years,
while my legal copy of PFS:Write languished in a drawer.  I was forced to
maintain an illegal copy of AppleWriter, because a legal copy was, for me,
unobtainable.

You can't believe how happy I was to find out that AppleWriter is now
legally downloadable!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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