Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!jade!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures) Message-ID: <4347@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:33:31 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.4347 Posted: Tue Jul 14 01:33:31 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 03:00:00 EDT Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 52 In article <1234@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: > >I'm interested in hearing how some of the software developers feel >after seeing this. Some of the software on that list comes from >people here on the net -- Infinity Software, Felsina Software, and >ASDG, to name a few. I have a few points I'd like to make: > Well to be honest I was somewhat shocked by the list, but I kind of expected it. I have lots of friends who just "like" to pirate software. They don't do it to rip off people, they just feel that they have completed something. I have the same tendancy. I will go the the newstand and see the new issue of Byte, not finding anything good in the issue I will still buy it. I just want to have ALL of the issues. I think this is the same thing with pirates. Kind of like baseball cards. So Galileo is out there for free, I don't know that alot of people who get it from there :'( would have gone out and bought our program anyway. We didn't loose much money and there is the possibility that someone will hear about our program that wouldn't have otherwise. Of course, Mike (powered by M & M's) Smithwick is also on this net, he wrote the program, I don't know how he feels... What I really feel is a shame is that FACC is there already. I have seen it in too many homes already of people who didn't purchase it. I have been really happy with it (I have four disk drives on my 2000). What really struck most strongly was on the back of the FACC disk box it says "This disk is not copy protected. ASDG has served the Amiga community well (remember the ASDG Recoverable Ram Disk); please don't pirate our software." Boy that line was better than any copy protection. I just kept remembering that stupid $10 that I ment to send in for that RRD that I never ended up doing. Boy, I haven't even let people SEE my FACC disk, let alone copy it. I sure wish that Infinity could afford to ship programs with NO protection, at least our new DeskTop Publishing program isn't protected. >3) Too bad we don't all have Digi-Views...I'd like to see what some of >the faces behind the message headers look like. > What happened? I recently did a "Bay Area" posting of the photo that Arthur Abrahams took of the BADGE meeting with the ALive and I have only gotten one reply. I want mail from everyone who got my posting or I am going to post it to the entire state! >Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-