Re: Enjoy solving problems?
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Re: Enjoy solving problems?
In article <358f6087.225851@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, Andrew Lewis
<floodle@usa.net> writes
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> A TI-Basic program can be produced for free,
Your poxy high-school games programs, possibly.
Not, however, my software, sportsman. Over ten years, I've devoted at
least a thousand hours to it. It was originally developed for the Casio
FX range and I switched over to TI and started rewriting for all three
calcs a couple of years ago. I started the project back-when with the
specific intention of making money at it, after a number of people
offered me money for programs. I supply a full printed manual (once had
to get a bank loan to pay for a print run). When required, I give tech
support. I tie up money in calculators, and carry stock, so I can offer
my customers ready-to-go packages, not just the software download. I pay
tax on the profits I make.
And now you're telling me, essentially, that you have a perfect right to
rip off my software?
Your breed of parasite ought to be crop-dusted out of existence.
>See what I'm getting at? If we attached a monetary value to
>every idea developed, societal progress would grind to a halt.
Horse-feathers. What planet are you from? We _do_ attach monetary value
to most worthwhile ideas; that's the intellectual property thing that
seems to bother you so much. And "societal progress" (there's a giveaway
phrase to ID a MarxoLeftie born loser, eh?) is blazing away at full
throttle.
Compare and contrast: The Soviet Union, where you weren't allowed to
benefit from an innovation you came up with (your ideal, seemingly), so
folks didn't bother much, and drank vodka instead; and the modern West,
where when you make something, a coffee-table or a software package,
it's yours alone to do what you want with - sell it, give it away or
toss it off a cliff.
Now get back under your flat stone.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland +44 1232 640669
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