| From: | Sheila Waller |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 10:15:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Cinema4D |
Hi Neil and Mike
I seem to be one of those who put the cat among the pigeons.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael O'Hara <mike@convergence.org>
To: Neil Bothwick <amigactive@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [amigactive] Re: Cinema4D
> Hi Neil, on 31-Jul-00 10:43:01 you wrote:
>
> >Do worry. That fact that it's been done elsewhere doesn't make it right.
>
> I never said it was 'right' to post it. It's also not 'right' that because
> of a the number not appearing in the mag, or on the CD that people now
can't
> use the software they have a legitimate right to.
This was just the point I was trying to make. It was not piracy of which I
also disapprove. I had subscribed to the magazine for some time and had a
legitimite right to use any programme on the disk. It was simply that
programmes on Amiga disks do not usually require serial nos to install and
run. There was, as far as I can see, no obvious comment in the magazine (and
I looked again last night) that such a number was needed. If it had I would
have found out how to get it even though at the time I could not or did not
want use Cinema4D it at that time. I think it was one of the times my
computer was down. And I had only just got on the internet. CUAmiga was
discontinued and I think that someone commented yesterday that HiSoft wanted
the number off the web site. And what about people who at that time were not
on the internet, how were they supposed to get that number? It would have
been better to put a light version on the disk or an older version and if
you wanted to upgrade you paid a fee in the usual way. Then we would not
have been having this controversy.
>
> >Anyone posting the number to this list risks a ban.
>
I do not think any one else will do so. It was a genuine mistake.
> The number is forever held in egroup's database now so it shouldn't need
to be
> posted to the list again.
>
> Carpe Diem,
> Mike O'Hara
Regards
Sheila
Sheila Waller
westryde@apanet.com.au
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