Hi All. As I settle in for another 12 hour day writing software for my small software company, I'm inspired by Leakys words. It's always a pleasure to hear how my time is worthless and that I should just give my products away because I owe you my life and work. I must just be some greedy asshole, with a crazy expectation of having a roof over my head and food in my mouth just because I produce valuable goods for the marketplace. Perhaps there is some truth in your statements. I certainly feel foolish when I bend over backwards to satisfy clients for very little money while so many bootleg my work.
Here's a crazy thought, Leaky. Are the admittedly aggresive tactics taken by the larger houses perhaps a reflection on the behaviour of the markets being sold to, rather than simple greed? Could your personal behaviour have anything to do with the situation we find ourselves in? Full moon indeed, Fred... K. -----Original Message----- From: John Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: off topic..mad about software registration.......... On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:46:21 -0700, you wrote: >only works in a competitive market, non monopolized. and no >asppersions were cast at marketing strategy, only at dumb greed. >remember the train industry! --- This is entirely off-topic for vortex-l, so I don't intend to pursue it much longer, but I'd like to remind you that the software industry is hardly a monopoly. There are a few major players who, at the moment, seem to be calling the shots, and if you disagree with their tactics then compete with them in the marketplace by writing a smaller, better, faster, cheaper package than they offer and let the world beat a bath to _your_ door. Interestingly, your proselytizing for the purpose of trying to recruit converts to your world ("If enough people do it it'll be OK") of piracy hardly smacks of anything but dumb greed on _your_ part, in that you don't want to pay for the value of what you want, you want to pay what _you_ want to pay and you want to be the arbiter of what a fair price is. You make up excuses like, "They don't have any overhead so it's OK for me to rip them off" which seem appealing but are nonsensical in that it doesn't matter _what_ their overhead structure looks like, it's none of your business and neither are any of their other business practices. Bottom line is, the price of the software is the price of the software and if you don't like it, don't buy it. -- John Fields
