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Re: Net piracy? +++
- Subject: Re: Net piracy? +++
- From: gudat@avalon.unizh.ch (gudat henrik)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 08:01:21 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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Eric Veum (veum@math.arizona.edu) wrote:
: Then go ahead and leave. The reason the apple 2 is dying is people
: are still trying to make money selling programs for this computer.
: I honestly cannot fathom why anyone would try to make a living writing
: code on a 65c02 (besides maybe a comunications program)
: If the apple2 is truely going to stay alive, there needs to be a concerted
: effort to spread free public domain programs around, before the
: software base is lost forever....and those pirated games. The authors
: have long since made their money off of them, and if they were still
: interested in making money, they WOULD find a way to market them
You're an idealist, aren't you?
There isn't any "lost software base". If you want a program, you can BUY
it. Do you really think programmers will give their programs away so you
can be proud of your "software base"?
Get serious.
henriK
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Synergetix / F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd.
Windoze/LowerMac / Pharma Research Clinical Informatics
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