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From: davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Discovery Software policy
Message-ID: <6283@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 1 Dec 88 03:21:39 GMT
References: <150@modcomp.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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From article <150@modcomp.UUCP>, by srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz):
> in article <1188@inria.UUCP>, rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) says:
>> I'm certainly not going to engage a correspondance with DSI on this subject.
>> I will NEVER  buy a DSI product in the future, and suggest you all do the 
>> same. I find their policy not only hypocritical but simply dishonest.
> 
> Discovery stopped selling Marauder some time ago, probably because they
> couldn't justify selling copy protected software that Marauder won't back up.


In simpler terms, they sold out.  They decided to sell copy protected software,
and do all the things that they claimed that they were against (like a
software vender who wouldn't allow you to make a backup copy of your
investment) (I don't know if they actually claimed that, but it sure is infered
if you're going to all the trouble of making a program designed to copy a
protected something, and even extending it to the point of trying to de-protect
the software that you're copying while you're at it...). :-(  I certainly have
no intention of buying software from a turncoat....
                          --Dave

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