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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 05:40:40 -0700, Alan Kong
<ako### [at] pacbellNO-SPAM net> wrote:
>> Piracy achieves one goal - it makes legitimate software buyers like the
>rest of us, pay more for the software in the long run. We end up subsidizing
>those who steal.
This is only true if the person pirating the particular software is a
potential buyer of this same product. What if that person cannot
afford to buy the software? Then there are two ways to go -- either
forget about the software or use a pirated version. Either way the
software company gets no money from that person, but in one case that
person is using the software and in the other he/she does not not. Now
which case is better?
If it were not for pirated software, I would have never seen nor heard
of POV simply because computers would have been such a luxury here
that none of the specialized magazines/newspapers would have existed,
nor the TV / radio programs... brrr, I am getting the chills :)
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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