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To: TigerPaw who wrote (40921)	4/4/2000 10:02:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 74651

>>DR-DOS, Word-Perfect, Paradox, Borland Compilers and Stacker to name a few.<< DR-DOS... how's the Caldera lawsuit going? WP, Paradox... too late to market with windows versions... didn't take win3.0 seriously and got clobbered by about win 3.1 or thereabouts. Borland Compilers... still in business as Inprise, working to put Delphi on Linux... very kewl... best compilers I've used... used to use quick c editor with turbo assembler from command line in win3.0. Stacker was put out of business by cheap, large hard drives... also dbl/drvspace was simply more elegant. That lawsuit was much ado about nothing. To me the real issue here is the application of copyright laws. MSFT has their own ideas about this and in all of the hubbub surrounding the proceedings, no one has much discussed the idea of intellectual property. I'm fairly convinced in any case that Asia will never be a major market for commercial software, because why would they buy something they could just copy? The Chinese Red Army is in the business of counterfeiting. That won't stop any time soon. I'm of the opinion in any event that iron-grip control from the developer's keyboard to my hard drive is a bad thing... I should be free to copy the media. MSFT should make a living off of services instead of royalties, but that would really ruin their scheme wouldn't it? I really think the world would be a better place if anyone could copy any media and the originator of "intellectual property" could get a cut out of any "pirate's" duplication and resale of said property. Of course that makes me a communist and my ideas are dangerous to the very foundations of western civilization, no? I have no problem with hardware and/or software copy-protection schemes. What I have a problem with is a legal system which tries to enforce copy protection. This whole DOJ case is once again, much ado about nothing... two sides discussing issues which are of little or no relevance to the world at large... FWIW Andy

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