Author: Martin Grabriel
Date: 21:04:45 12/14/99
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Anyway, I have sent an email to the Moderators to remove the entire thread because of possible misintrepretation of intention. On December 14, 1999 at 23:41:02, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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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