Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: all copy protection (relative worth) Message-ID: <23478@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 20:52:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23478 Posted: Tue Jul 14 20:52:22 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 01:37:24 EDT References: <1303@crash.CTS.COM> <593@madvax.UUCP> <1813@vax135.UUCP> <1637@stb.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 28 Many times in the discussion of programs and pirating this statement (in one form or another) appears : "I copied program FOO because it wasn't worth X dollars." When someone says this to me, I ask them the following question : A) Could you write this program yourself ? If the answer is "No" then already you have exposed the lie, since there would have been no other way in the world to get this program except from the person who wrote it, then you are at their mercy as far as price goes. If you think it is to much, you can convince a friend who can program to do it for you instead, which comes to ... If the answer is "Yes" then why don't you write it? Which usually is answered "I don't have a week to figure out how to write the damn thing." Which I counter with how much do you make in a week? That is what it's worth should be. If you are continuing from #1 above then ask your friend how much they will charge you for the service. That becomes the relative worth. Relative worth is a difficult and complicated issue, think about the time invested in a product (even if it appears insufficent) and consider what that time is worth to you. It is much easier to just pirate it but theives are like that. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.