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From: leeke@cascade.STANFORD.EDU (Steven D. Leeke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported?
Message-ID: <246@cascade.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 14:43:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 14:43:04 1986
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Reply-To: leeke@cascade.UUCP (Steven D. Leeke)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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In article <542@runx.OZ> baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
>My thinking is that if someone doesn't upgrade at least the ROMs/Drive, they
>do so for the following reasons :- 
>
>1) Lack of money;
>2) Lack of brains;
>3) shortage of upgrades;
>4) no need, just a casual user; or
>5) some other strange reason.
>
>Now people that fit into box 1) don't have the money to buy the upgrade, so they
>have little money to spend on software. These are a major body of software
>pirates, since they lack the money to buy software, they copy what they need.
>
>...
>
>Anything else?
>
>Jason Haines
>
>BTW, Happy New Year

As a matter of fact there is a lot 'else':

Just because I don't have the money to upgrade to the new ROMS I'm a
software pirate?  You seem to have a great ability to offend a maximal
amount of people with a minimal amount of effort.  Why don't you put your
brain in gear and think about the implications of what you are writing?

I can not afford to upgrade my Mac to the new ROM/drive ( because I am
a graduate student in EE - which has nothing to do with your statement
anyway, but just for completeness I put it in ).  I can not afford a lot
of software AND I DO WITHOUT IF I CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY FOR IT!!!  On top
of that, I doubt that the folks in my lab who still have vanilla Macs would
be cited for a 'lack of brains'.  Nor are we casual users.  We just don't
have the money to spend or choose to spend in that way.

One reason people often give for 'righteous pirating' is high prices. Well,
software prices may be screwed up (thanks to Borland and the Mac in general
that's changing) but HIGH PRICES DO NOT EXCUSE PIRATING.

We had to suffer through your Max Speaks garbage and now this.  Why don't
you do many folks a favor and think twice before you post another thing to
the net.  I'll resist the temptation to really flame and hope an increase
in maturity over the next few years will to your ability to contribute
positively to the net.

Steven D. Leeke

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