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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