On Apr 22, 2008, at 1:36 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
> Oh I agree...M$ has really screwed up on this one, in terms of
> making a
> lot of innoncents feel accused. That was the same negative sentiment
> with the Winbloze Genuine Advantage goofs. Tons of resentment towards
> them, just like Intuit, for their "anti-piracy" stuff. On their
> side of
> the fence, did their numbers rise, hinting that their anti-piracy
> measures worked effectively to yield more official sales I wonder?
Probably one of the first software success stories was VisiCalc,
which was freely copyable. People would bring it into offices and
install it on their own machines, and then use it to do the sort of
number crunching that was not possible before spreadsheets. After a
while management would take notice and "get" the whole computer
notion. The result was lots of purchased copies that would never have
been sold if the initial copying hadn't taken place.
-- Ed Leafe
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