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 naïve, 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