craparotta@ny1mm.DEC (03/28/85)
I saw Joel's reply to Doctor Vax today. I must commend him on it. I do agree with Joel that Pirates have(don't) put companies out of business. I did get this feeling though from is letter. I also AGREE with the person that a pirate that SELLS pirated copies of ANYTHING should be caught and prosecuted!!! This is definitley immoral What alot of people also don't know is that probably 95% of the so called pirates are 12-15 yrs old. The day of the Grownup pirate is long gone... These KIDS trade this stuff like we used to trade baseball cards and comic books. I guess that's the enviorment now. Computers, Computers , Computers. They usually spend all there $ on the Computer and none left for the software. I realize this is a poor excuse,but they usually use it to justify it. They do not use 99% of what they have, in this your correct. I also read of Turbo being sold on a Campus fora low price. I agree with that and can't reason why they still copy it. It'll cost them more in time to get the manual copied. Well I will apologize to Joel for my earlier (it will probably hit with this one) statements. Well instead of fighting and wasting lots of money I and time maybe free backups(except postage and stuff) will stop it. Also let this discussion go on net.flame and lets get back to discussing APPLES. Does anyone know of a VT100 emulator for the //e that also has a capture buffer?If so please let me know. ADIOS.... Joe Crap