Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 16:36:09 09/13/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 16:40:43, Shaun Graham wrote: >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. What's your problem? You are being offered a product. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Why would you call this blackmail? Enrique
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