From: eric@e-selex.com   
      
   "Bert Rozenberg"  wrote in message   
   news:1elz786se1vpp$.js24xcjf1jyp.dlg@40tude.net...   
   > So, if I walk into your house and take everything you don't use anymore,   
   > it's ok as long as I don't make any money of of it? Get real!!   
   >   
      
   Pretty much. I do believe thats why places like the salvation army exist. I   
   have a closet full of computer hardware I no longer use that I give away to   
   my friends. This last week I handed out almost a gig of PC2100 and also a   
   Ti4600 I no longer use. What, you think I should just sit on it and let it   
   collect dust? If I cant use it nobody can?   
      
   Sounds selfish if you ask me.   
      
   > When the sales of MBBS and Worldgroup dropped to zero, I made the decision   
   > to stop selling and supporting my products. I thought of releasing it to   
   > the public, but decided not to. Now you are telling me that because you   
   > don't agree with my decision, it's ok if you use a pirated copy?   
      
   Your decision doesn't make any sense because its just you saying "No" for   
   the purpose of saying "No". If you're no longer selling your product, and   
   not making any money off of it, how would you be affected by at least   
   releasing a keygen for your products? Your cash flow (of $0) from the   
   MajorBBS products wouldn't go DOWN any. Now would it?   
      
   > Please stop finding excuses for piracy; there ain't. Just do like most   
   > ISV's did in the past: buy some programming tools, get a course in   
   > programming and start writing your own modules. That's what I did. I wrote   
   > MBBS addons to make my own non-profit BBS better, not to make money (which   
   > I in the long run did).   
      
   Your logic of me having to reinvent the wheel every time I would like a   
   program is very counter productive to the MarjorBBS community. We're just   
   hobbyists who would like to keep an aspect of past computing alive.   
      
   Also, please stop finding excuses for making yourself not sound like a man   
   who has control issues. You sounded like a child having a tantrum when you   
   said:   
      
   "Nope, I've made my products abandonaware too. But they are still my   
   products. They are mine and I'm the only one who can decide what happens   
   with it, not somebody who's unable to find me, not somebody who's not   
   making profit, just me."   
      
   Perhaps you should take some time to think and collect your thoughts.   
      
   Come back when you have something CONSTRUCTIVE to add to the MajorBBS   
   community.   
      
   - E.   
      
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