From: Bert.Rozenberg@lekkerthuis.com   
      
   On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:16:15 -0700, E. Nusbaum wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   We live in different country's so I don't know how the salvation army works   
   in your country. In my country they don't walk into your house and take   
   everything you don't use anymore. Instead they wait until you make the   
   decision to give it to them.   
      
   > I   
   > have a closet full of computer hardware I no longer use that I give away to   
   > my friends.   
      
   Makes me wonder how you can get a closet full of computers if you give it   
   away to friends. Maybe you were still searching for friends :-)   
      
   > Sounds selfish if you ask me.   
      
   One of the advantages of being the creator of something is that you can be   
   selfish about it.   
      
   > Your decision doesn't make any sense because its just you saying "No" for   
   > the purpose of saying "No".   
      
   One of the advantages of being the creator of something is that your   
   decisions about it don't have to make sense.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Probably not. But I'm running a business for about 15 years now and I   
   didn't survive by giving away things I invested in.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Just like I was a hobbyists when I paid a lot for the hardware, software   
   and development tools and spend a lot of time on creating one of the   
   biggest BBS's in my country. But even as a hobbyist I understood that if I   
   wanted something somebody spend money and time on, I had to pay for it and   
   that there would be products I, for various reasons, couldn't get.   
      
   > 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:   
      
   One of the advantages of being the creator of something is that you can   
   sound like a child having a tantrum and still stay the owner.   
      
   > Perhaps you should take some time to think and collect your thoughts.   
      
   I'm not sure how you do things, but I'm used to think and collect my   
   thoughts before I write them down. Perhaps you should try that too   
   sometime.   
      
   > Come back when you have something CONSTRUCTIVE to add to the MajorBBS   
   > community.   
      
   I already did in the past. MajorBBS/Worldgroup would not have been so   
   successful without the TPD/ISV's. But what's your contribution to the   
   MajorBBS community besides telling others it's ok to use pirated software?   
      
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   Bert Rozenberg   
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   My philosophy, in essense, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his   
   own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as   
   his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. - Ayn Rand   
      
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