Subj : Re: Forced registration i To : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l From : Geo. Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 11:16 am From: "Geo." "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 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...? Then autodesk has lost a possible customer. But you have not said if this older friend would have spent $4000 for autocad so I can't say for sure. But our new voice here who was promoting piracy plainly stated that he wouldn't buy the software, so I was trying to give you an example that matched his circumstances. I mean it's pretty obvious that home users in Russia or China probably aren't going to be shelling out $4K for a single application so all the complaining about it from the likes of autodesk calling it a loss is just that, complaining, it's not really a loss it's just a way to inflate the numbers they use to denounce piracy. What autodesk and others fail to realize is that it is these pirates that make their products a standard. Because if these people were using some free linux based cad package then that package would have a much larger installed base and a much better chance at taking on the leaders. For some reason vendors always ignore that last point even though it is what allowed some of them to become the standard. Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .