I very much agree with your points. I think most people who actually crack software do it for the challenge, not because of malice. And I believe most people who trade cracked software do it because they think they're not hurting anyone. I don't have many problems with the two groups above... crackers will always crack, and kids will always trade warez, no matter what we try. What bothers me are the people who do it for profit. People who have high speed T1 lines to their homes and gigabytes of storage space so they can collect warez and sell them as CDs. People who actually open retail shops in malls to "rent" you illegal software. Companies who knowingly distribute unlicensed software to hundreds of their employees. People who make it their business to rip you off. The only way to stop them is to sue and/or prosecute them. Perhaps organizations such as the SIIA (www.siia.net) can help us Palm developers. They regularly litigate pirates (from college students, bootleg CD makers, to businesses) in several countries. See <http://www.spa.org/piracy/pirnews.htm>. For individual Palm share- ware developers, the SIIA dues might be too expensive, but I think we all can at least forward Palm warez URLs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Regards, -Ade At 08:46 AM 4/29/99 +0200, Denis wrote: [shortened quote] > >That's why I agree on the point that we should do our best to "keep honest >people honest", as someone said. > >1- A minimal protection is needed. [...] >2- Include a precise license agreement with all your packages [...] >3- Also include a document to explain that if the app is sold that cheap and > supported that good, it's because users pay their registrations. [...] >4- Don't overprice your apps. [...] >5- Don't publish over-restricted demos or locked apps. [...]
