[105773] in Cypherpunks
Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Fri Nov 20 11:50:47 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981119234213.23643J-100000@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:22:13 -0500
To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>, Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
From: Petro <petro@www.playboy.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Petro <petro@www.playboy.com>
At 11:44 PM -0500 11/19/98, Rabid Wombat wrote:
>The best defence for the programmer is to make the software so buggy,
>complex, and poorly documented that enough revenue is obtained through
>support contracts and fees, supplemental documentation, training courses,
>and the like to cover the potential losses to piracy. NT comes to mind. ;)
A lot of software products seem to fit that description these days.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather na=EFve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::petro@playboy.com
