damn, I HATE Yahoo !
I just wrote a logical reply and yahoo trashed it and asked for my
password ! crmmmy software designers.. shouldn't be allowed to
charge for faulty software.......
Oh, and sofwate is distrubuted with agreements and exchanges. you
agree to use it and you exchange $$$ for it.
any other use is violating that agreement.
I think once you pay for software, you should get a working copy.
upgrades included. a new product that is similar and fixes the
origional problems should not be charged to paying users of the
faulty program. That is like selling a faulty car and charging the
owner to get it 'fixed'
If bootleg is illegal, broken software should be illegal too !
selling a pre-release to get money in the door is fine, as long as a
functional product is supplied at a later date.
But, if software was not paid for, we would have SuperCalc and
WordStar and 8088 microprocessors.
> At some point i think software should be free..
> I know this is impossible for software programmers but i would like
it.
> I also think knoweledge shold be free (plans etc.).
> I know programming is just as hard work as building something
but... on the
> other side it are only bits and bytes..
you could get there if you never charge for anything you do, but you
must work 12 hour days and make a lot of stuff.
if you like you can get started.... start on a project for me, design
a the circuit, lay it out, etch the board and stuff it. send it for
free to Dave at ........
OK, this is off topic, but the bottom line is bootlegging software is
illegal broken software is not. Once the software houses get their
act together, the complaint will go away and less software will be
bootlegged.
while we wait, promoting illegal actions is illegal. besides it
reveals to the world you probably have illegal stuff on your machine.
And with the US Government planning on destroying your machine if
illegal stuff is on it, you are risking a lot. This is true,
currently they plan on a 3 strikes rule. if you pirate music and get
caught 3 times, the 3rd tiem they plan on sending a virus to destroy
your machine.
OK, way way way oof topic.
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