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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10379)	8/28/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Reggie, >>The reason NSCP made no attempt to collect payment was to expand thier market share as quickly and widely as possible. What can any company honestly do to enforce the collection of payments? >>That is why MSFT allowed some pirating of 3.1. It is why they have allowed some pirating in China. Microsoft is the biggest whiner of pirated software and does not allow it any more than you or I would. It is one of those things that software companies have to generally accept as part of doing business; like retail stores put up with shoplifting. The honest consumer just ends up absorbing the losses like always. >>Technology has nothing to do with it either, for when I was still running DOS 5.0, trading software use to come with both software and hardware protection methods that worked quite well. Unfortunately for honest consumers like you and I this sometimes backfires when the hardware "dongle" fails or the "key" disk that cannot be properly backed-up fails. There are ways of defeating both software and hardware protection if the returns are high enough! Somehow Netscape's not hounding me for payments does not "justify" my disregarding their license agreement now does it. Leaving my house unlocked wouldn't make a burglar any less of a criminal. Cheers, Norm

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