1998-11-20 - Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
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From: Petro <petro@www.playboy.com>
To: Rabid Wombat <schear@lvcm.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-11-20 17:00:33 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:00:33 +0800
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From: Petro <petro@www.playboy.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:00:33 +0800
To: Rabid Wombat <schear@lvcm.com>
Subject: Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
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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 nave, 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
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- 1998-11-19 (Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:05:14 +0800) - Piracy and cypherpunks - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
- 1998-11-19 (Fri, 20 Nov 1998 02:39:44 +0800) - Re: Piracy and cypherpunks - Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
- 1998-11-20 (Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:14:37 +0800) - Re: Piracy and cypherpunks - Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
- 1998-11-20 (Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:06:25 +0800) - Re: Piracy and cypherpunks - Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
- 1998-11-20 (Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:00:33 +0800) - Re: Piracy and cypherpunks - Petro <petro@www.playboy.com>