Re: Piracy (was RE: recommend a book on Framemaker)

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

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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