Piracy and cypherpunks

Petro petro at www.playboy.com
Fri Nov 20 09:00:33 PST 1998



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

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