Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 13:40:43 09/13/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 08:15:04, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >On September 12, 1998 at 16:04:57, Shaun Graham wrote: > >> You have no right whatsoever to try to force people not to test a product to >>see how strong it is, let alone resorting to this almost blackmale tactic. > >As a programmer I feel that I must respond to this. Any program is the personal >property of the programmer (unless he or she is specifically employed to write >for someone else). If Ed chooses to hide the Rebel Auto232 support, or to leave >it out altogether, then that is his business, and if you or I don't like it, >then we do not have to purchase the program. By all means voice your >disapproval, but that does not mean that Ed does not have *the right* do do as >he sees fit with his own program regardless of whether it is popular or not. > Of course he has the right to put in an autoplayer or not, hide it or whatever. What i am arguing against is his attempt to use it in a blackmail fashion to stop purchasers of the program from doing what is legally their right to do(in other words test it). You keep calling it his program, once he sells it that program is no longer his "personal property" except that he is entitled to such things as copywrite protection.
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