Remember the 80's when it was difficult to pirate software?  There was 
at lease one utility that would "unlock" software so it could be copied.

I recall that multiple software vendors discovered when their software 
was "locked" they sold less.  The thought was people who were able to 
take the software for a test drive would buy it if they liked it.

That is how I got started with xBase... someone gave me a copy of 
dBaseII.  Over the next 14 years I bought almost all the variants of 
xBase all the way to maybe Visual FoxPro 6... Yikes!!

Not much to pirate these days since I plan to exit Win10 when it dies in 
October and everything else I use is free/Open Source.

Keith

On 2025-02-11 12:12, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Tim O'Reilly said something very interesting many years ago. He likened 
> pirating his books like pirating music - his daughter 
> pirated/downloaded music, and if she liked it, bought the music. He 
> looks at it like a progressive tax - the more successful you are, the 
> more you lose to piracy. Fortunately for me, my employer pays for all 
> the O'Reilly I can consume.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George Toft
> 
> On 2/9/2025 6:52 PM, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> I was all set to pay my money but then I read the terms. For one 
>>> thing,
>>> it wasn't clear whether the eBook exists on my hard disk or whether I
>>> have to read a copy on their server. I can't tell whether these are
>>> DRM'ed. I'm due for a new computer in a year or two, and no way I 
>>> read
>>> all those books before that date in time.
>>> 
>> The books are offered as PDF and ePUB direct downloads to your hard 
>> drive. no DRM.
>> 
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