SV: Enjoy solving problems?

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: SV: Enjoy solving problems?
From: P-A <acustic@ALGONET.SE>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:54:28 +0200
Reply-To: P-A <acustic@ALGONET.SE>
How many programs/games/shells/link-software/you_name_it,
would we have for the calcs if everyone wanted to have money for it???

With an attitude like yours, the program probably sucks anyway...
Just like you!
/P-A

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> Från: Stuart Dawson <sd@DAWSON-ENG.DEMON.CO.UK>
> Till: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
> Ämne: Re: Enjoy solving problems?
> Datum:  den 24 juni 1998 07:52
>
> In article <358f6087.225851@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, Andrew Lewis
> <floodle@usa.net> writes
>
> [cut]
>
> >       A TI-Basic program can be produced for free,
>
> Your poxy high-school games programs, possibly.
>
> Not, however, my software, sportsman. Over ten years, I've devoted at
> least a thousand hours to it. It was originally developed for the Casio
> FX range and I switched over to TI and started rewriting for all three
> calcs a couple of years ago. I started the project back-when with the
> specific intention of making money at it, after a number of people
> offered me money for programs. I supply a full printed manual (once had
> to get a bank loan to pay for a print run). When required, I give tech
> support. I tie up money in calculators, and carry stock, so I can offer
> my customers ready-to-go packages, not just the software download. I pay
> tax on the profits I make.
>
> And now you're telling me, essentially, that you have a perfect right to
> rip off my software?
>
> Your breed of parasite ought to be crop-dusted out of existence.
>
> >See what I'm getting at?  If we attached a monetary value to
> >every idea developed,  societal progress would grind to a halt.
>
> Horse-feathers. What planet are you from? We _do_ attach monetary value
> to most worthwhile ideas; that's the intellectual property thing that
> seems to bother you so much. And "societal progress" (there's a giveaway
> phrase to ID a MarxoLeftie born loser, eh?) is blazing away at full
> throttle.
>
> Compare and contrast: The Soviet Union, where you weren't allowed to
> benefit from an innovation you came up with (your ideal, seemingly), so
> folks didn't bother much, and drank vodka instead; and the modern West,
> where when you make something, a coffee-table or a software package,
> it's yours alone to do what you want with - sell it, give it away or
> toss it off a cliff.
>
> Now get back under your flat stone.
>
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