Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!killer!davidg 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 Lines: 25 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 -- David Guntner UUCP: {ames, mit-eddie}!killer!davidg INET: davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US "...Different ship, but she's got the right name. Treat --Admiral L. McCoy her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home." "Encounter at Farpoint"