inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Piracy is why Microsoft is dominate today
It all started with pirating windows 3.1. |
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arck1969
join:2006-11-27
Apple Valley, CA | I thought it was from MS DOS that is the first OS I had that was pirated. |
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL | reply to inteller
Good, I just downloaded windows 2000 pro. |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
clubs:
 ·Comcast
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3.1? Try 3.0 (does *anyone* have any idea how many semi-bootlegged or even *completely bootlegged* 3.0 installs there were?). When it was discovered that there was actually a *reason* to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11, even on non-networked PCs (it's called *increased performance*), that became the *borrowed software du jour*. It got to the point that WfWG actually became the default Windows for the whole last year before Windows 95 launched. (This was the *same* software that was referred to as *Windows for Warehouses* in the original 3.1 iteration, due to non-sales.) Then along came CD burning, and now (of course) DVD burning, which makes such casual piracy *easier*, not harder, than it was in the days of the floppy disk (moribund software, such as MS-DOS and Windows 3.x *still* gets pirated, often as CD images; the same applies, unsurprisingly, to even Windows NT 4.01 Workstation and Server).
They may want to make piracy harder, but unless your software costs a mint, no software company (not even Microsoft, Adobe or (egads!) Apple) wants to completely kill it. |
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GoodyearMark
Premium
join:2001-05-02
Goodyear, AZ | reply to inteller
3.1?? Some were pirating software YEARS before Windows 1.0 even came out. Windows isn't that old. |
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Shad0wlore
Premium
join:2004-06-15
USA
 ·AT&T Midwest
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I was just about to say the same thing... I remember getting 'copies' of old CoCo games back when games like 'Donald Duck's Playground' were popular.
Ahhh..... god I feel old... I wonder how many people here even know what a CoCo is  |
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kpatz
MY HEAD A SPLODE
Premium
join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH | I used to have a 1st generation CoCo... those were the days.
You can relive them here: »members.cox.net/javacoco/ |
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