Subj : Re: Forced registration i To : Geo. From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 08:35 am From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" Sounds like an argument for software zoning. Good for all involved. (Russia or Chinese users could get local support from inexepensive local support staff; autocad gets SOME profit from the product.) gs "Geo." wrote in message news:3ac5216b$1@w3.nls.net... > "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) .