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Dans un courrier daté du 03/02/98 05:46:41 , Blaine Mathieu écrit :
<< I trade "real" money. I don't sell systems or indicators or trading
software. As a "real" trader in the futures markets, I know that I would not
trust the equity in my house to a piece of pirated software. Although I do
get most of my support from this list (from good people like you), I would
not want to give up the registered user support that Omega gives me (nor the
manuals - for that matter). Rather than increasing the protection, perhaps
Omega should unlock the program and think up more reasons that a potential
customer would want to pay the fee rather than use non-registered software.
In any case, I feel like I'm re-hashing all the arguments that led to the
unlocking of most software in the late 80's. Been there, done that. So I'll
let you have the last word now and I'll move on to other things.
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So, I need to reply to really have the last word.
Your opinion is respectable, even if you are not concerned by the piracy
issue.
Totally unrelated to a vertical market as explained by Bob Brickey, but why
not ?
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Unfortunately, many of you are missing my point. There is no doubt that
Tradestation would be distributed by people with the propensity to pirate
software, if it was unlocked. My basic point is: how many of those pirates
would have been paying customers ($2000+) in the first place?
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This evaluation is diffficult to do.
The re is an actual piracy with the current TS version and the safesoft thing.
I know at least 2 customers here that wanted to buy TS .
I know that they currently use TS and that they never bought a copy.
The problem with piracy is that it is not made publically.
Usually, they do not send to me a report of their illegal activities.
So, your question is useless as you will never get the answer.
The best thing to kill an useless question is to kill the underlying problem.
A serious copy protection is the only valid solution, unless you find an other
one to transform human beings into the ideal peopl
lin
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