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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
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Date: 8 Dec 88 17:24:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: bell@unc.cs.unc.edu's message of 8 Dec 88 05:59:25 GMT

In article <5769@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, bell@unc.UUCP (Andrew Bell) writes:
>[ Various discussions deleted ]
>
>Most big-time pirates are fairly young,  and don't have the disposable
>income to buy that much software. 

  By counting people, I'd have to agree that most pirates are young.
Counting software (# of packages, or total volume) I'd disagree.  The
absolute WORST pirates I've ever seen are school systems: not the
kids, but the teachers/administrators.  I know there are a lot of
honest people out there, but it only takes one administrator who
decides that instead of buying 100 copies of some package (at a quite
reasonable discount, too) they want to buy one and make 100 copies for
all their schools (this was a large system) to use.
  And people wonder where kids pick up their dishonesty....

		Anton

P.S.  Ever had someone return a disk to your for replacement, when it
      turns out they didn't even buy the package from you?  Sheesh....

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