Subj : Re: Forced registration i
To   : matt
From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l
Date : Thu Mar 29 2001 11:55 pm

From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" <nospam@nospam.org>

You can download Paint Shop Pro for free, resistration costs $99.00.

Gimp on Linux is free.

You don't HAVE to steal to create.

gs

"matt" <cm@niglets.org> wrote in message news:3ac40d45$1@w3.nls.net...
> the prices of software these days, are outrageous, adobe photoshop runs
for
> about $600, you expect anyone NOT well off to be able to afford that? your
> joking if you do, people who cannot afford this, arent suposed to dabble
in
> computer made art? arent good enough to use it? your a joke if you think
> piracy is the same as shoplifting
>
>
> "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:3ac4049a@w3.nls.net...
> > If it stopped there -- but what about the copy an older friend gets from
> > him -- perhaps a draftsman, who encouraged the interest in the field in
> the
> > first place...?
> >
> > Oh. Now I see the plan. Just like drug-dealers, have juvenile cutouts
for
> > the theft....
> >
> > gs
> >
> > "Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:3ac3f275@w3.nls.net...
> > > "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
> > > news:3ac3e706@w3.nls.net...
> > > >
> > > > But loss of income is real in all three instances.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't agree. If a 16 year old kid who would never pay $4000 for a
copy
> > of
> > > AutoCAD should pirate a copy of AutoCAD, then AutoDesk has lost NO
> income.
> > > He was not a possible customer, and he has not reduced their inventory
> so
> > > they haven't lost anything that they would have sold to another
> customer.
> > >
> > > If that same kid walks out of a store with a $4000 computer system
then
> > even
> > > if he never would have purchased it the store has in fact lost
inventory
> > > that they purchased and could have sold to another customer. They HAVE
> > lost
> > > income.
> > >
> > > Geo. (it's still stealing, but there is a definite difference)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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