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Re: Piracy (was RE: recommend a book on Framemaker)
Subject:Re: Piracy (was RE: recommend a book on Framemaker) From:Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:18:55 -0700
Peter Gold <peter -at- highsoft -dot- com> wrote:
(*snip*)
>
> As several others have noted, violating the requirements of the
software
> license is a serious legal matter, as well as one that affects the
ability
> of companies to stay in business.
If you want to talk about software pirating, take a trip to Hong Kong
sometime. When I was there ('97, I believe), we found several shops
with nothing but pirated software (and porno movies on video disk).
One CD was ~$20 US. Some of the things I remember seeing included
betas of Windows '98, anything Adobe produced, lots of Chinese fonts
and font tools, etc.
.... and that was just *one* shop.
I heard Bill Gates regards these folks customers as "future
Microsoft customers." That is, they'll have to upgrade sooner or
later.
The store owners, on the other hand .....
--gdw
P.S.:
Mac software? Sure. Just five CDs.
--gdw
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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