Author: Roger Brown
Date: 16:13:31 09/26/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 18:58:45, Alex Newman wrote: >Hi Joachim, > >That's all fine and well, but I still think you are making a mistake. >People who use pirated software will NEVER buy Fruit. Why would they? They are >used to the free stuff. They already got Shredder, Fritz,... for free. >Fritz 9 which seems to be very strong is already available on all peer-to-peer >networks. >Most of those people will just wait a while until the copy-protection is broken >by some hacker. Since Fruit's exe is very small, I expect that it's going to be >extremly easy for many to brake it. Your only hope is that since Fruit is not >well known outside the small CC comunity, they may never find out about it. > >In the meantime, you are making a big inconvenience for your good customers. In >my oppinion, you will hurt sales rather then gain some. > >Alex Hello Alex, I want to provide a little food for thought. I accept some of your points but the logical extension of it is that if there are good thieves among us then we should not protect software at all. In fact, as the thieves get better then the protection should get less and less... I say we understand why Fabien is doing this. We do not have to like it and as such we may not buy Fruit but the "they are going to break it anyway" argument is not a reason not to try to protect intellectual property. You do not see many persons leaving their cars unprotected despite the rate of motor car theft, do you? Intellectual property is no less valuable. Sometimes I wonder if that is appreciated. You are right in most of what you say but then what - throw our hands up and submit our sensibilities to the lowest common denominator? I think not. My view. Later.
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