Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:39:51 06/05/98
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On June 05, 1998 at 15:25:14, Will Singleton wrote: > >On June 04, 1998 at 20:09:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >> >> >>Hi will. >>Being one of the guys that produces these questions for the polls, I >>want to explain you the reason of not doing such distinction. It >>appeared clear to >>me that copy protection is a device always related with commercial >>concerns and so the question obviously does not tocuh freewares programs >>and does touch all the rest, shareware included, as much as this last >>category is as commercial as anything else with just a different >>distribution system. >>Regards >>Fernando > > >I think there is a distinction between the cost/benefit of copy >protection for shareware vs commercial. A commercial program would be >silly to do without protection, while a shareware fellow probably >doesn't have much invested in it, or at least won't be hurt as much by >illegal sales. > >That's a significant distinction. Will: Yours is a signitficant distinction as far as the "shareware fellow probably does not much invested on it...". that's speculation, will, specially when nobody knows how muc ios, in this field, a great or a lesser invertion. We cannot do a categiorization onm the ground of specualtion about how much is a lot of and how much one guy is hurted or not. Fernando >Will
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