Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:41:02 12/14/99
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On December 14, 1999 at 23:24:21, Martin Grabriel wrote: >Piracy? The whole purpose of offering a demo is to have as many people test it >right? I bought Fritz6 with hard cash only to find out that there is a demo with >what appears to be THE engine. Understand how I feel? The purpose of a demo is to enable people to try out a program before they have to buy it. Someone who is interested but not sure if they want to plunk their money down can check it out, start liking it, and decide they want to buy it. Or conversely (though I think this happens less) they may decide that it's not the product for them. It is certainly _not_ the case that the purpose of a demo is to allow people to rip out parts of its compiled code and use those parts in different applications. So no, I don't understand how you feel. I just understand that I feel bad that I brought up Eidos in the first place. Like the people who worked to make Fritz 6, I write software too, and having people steal your work is a pretty bad feeling. Dave
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