Re: Issues as of late

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"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Of course, some of you are probably stammering now, "But Marinetti is on
>> SourceForge!"  And you're right.  That's *exactly* how it ought to be.
>> Richard Bennett-Forrest, Andrew Roughan, Tony Diaz, you guys rule.  My
> point
>> is: why isn't it all like that?
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> What's wrong with sending these guys some pizza money? Thats what it 
> equates
> to, more or less... As you alluded to, no one is getting rich writing
> software for the II. It's a hobby - maybe comp'ing an author helps them
> offset the cost of supporting their own hobby-related expenses. Maybe it
> offsets the money the author spent to get a copy of ORCA/<insert language
> here> or a hard drive.

There's nothing wrong with it, per se.  I simply don't understand the logic 
of choosing to charge money for their products.  They have that right, and 
my philosophical disagreement certainly doesn't give me the right to pirate 
the software.  My copy of Orca/C was legally purchased some years ago.  I 
paid for my Spectrum CD.  I still plan to buy Harmonie some year or another. 
As I'm a software developer myself, I certainly don't begrudge someone the 
right to charge for their products.  I do, however, find it bewildering that 
anyone would choose to become (or remain) a commercial presence for a 
20-year-old line of computers.