From: Andy Galluzzi (agalluzzi_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 12:18:25 PDT
Nice post. Do you know that a LOT of the developers of the software you
want to crack are in this list and now has read your message?
How would you feel if somebody say that your work is not good enough for
the money you ask and wanna pay you less or nothing?
I don't see you as CTO in a company, saying to the SAP people that it's
too much to pay 6 million dollars for it's solution, your machines cost
less than that.
The real thing here is that there is a LOT of people making possible
that you have a Newton and can get the software that you use, Victor
with UNNA, Paul with the ATA and LPR driver, Eckhart Köppen with the
Bluetooth and Obex and a lot of more software and protocols, Hiroshi
Noguchi with the Wireless Driver, Daniel Padilla with a lot of utilities
and stuff including the Desktop Connection Library with Michael Vacík
and Nicolas Zinovieff, and a LOT of more people over there that still is
working on this devices, when everybody know that it has no market
share, and makes it for love or for hobby, but makes its good so you can
use your newton, and have it up to date more than five years later it
has been discontinued.
I don't see the point in some software that still are available as Demo,
but the company that developed it does not sell it anymore. It would be
great to see that software for free (not open source, just free).
In any case, it wasn't a serious post. 50 euros is nothing for someone
that really need that.
Andy.
bensisko escribió:
> can't believe none of you sods have [k]racked this one yet - yeah yeah don't
> bitch about piracy, i've heard it all. fact still remains that at a hefty 50
> euros, its bout the price i'd pay for a (new)ton; in fact, if i had 50 euros to
> throw around, i'd proaly have bought a 32mb flashram card! and for that matter,
> if piracy were such a big deal, none of us would be makin copies of photoshop,
> office x, etc, etc, rite? the way i figure, if the author (oh, please! spare me
> the sob stories about his wakeful nites); if the jerk had any sense, he'd have
> charged 5 euros instead of 50, with a 500 strong user base here itself on
> newtontalk, that's a whopping 2500 euros at least, more than what he'll make at
> 50 euros per head!
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