Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)

[tolsen@netcom.com (Terry R. Olsen)]

Jeffrey Robertson (jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca) wrote:

: Now, since software is not so easily copied between platforms, you've got a
: problem.  LSL is case (b):  you can buy it only for other platforms.  I'd say
: you should be allowed to buy the IBM version, reverse engineer it, and write
: an Apple II version, which only you would use.  A whole lot of work, but it
: fits the idea of using the software, not the media.  Of course, some licences
: specificly forbit reverse engineering, but that's another issue.

Well, you can buy the IBM version (at least you're buying the right to 
use the software), then download the Apple version and play that.  You 
have the dox from the purchased IBM version.