oui! certainment!
When visiting a friends QTH to contest, an "innocent" copy of CT is made;
"heah you got version 9.? - I have a copy of 8.? okay if I make a copy?"
Obviously the copy is made of the software. It was so easy it was almost
like it wasn't a bad thing that was done at all.
To make a photocopy of a manual means someone has to borrow and return the
manual, and in so doing, portrays himself as the cheap person he truly is!
He would rather have a photocopy of the manual than pay K1EA for his
software and coincidentally receive the manual. CT, which allows him to
enjoy his contesting hobby almost effortlessly, taking care of all the
tedious records associated with logging is had for the cost of the
photocopying.
I think that just copying the software is so easily done in a matter of
moments, while someone may even be taking a break to go to the bathroom
(!) - that, somehow this is perceived as "ok"...perception of the act of
borrowing the manual and taking it to be copied touches the nerve, it is
then that it is obvious that what is being done is taking K1EA (&
associates) out of the CT.
Get real, if you want a copy of the manual buy the software. Done...and oh
yeah, you coincidentally didn't break any laws, either!
Jim, K4OJ
----- Original Message -----
From: Gérard Parat <gerard.parat@detexis.thomson-csf.com>
To: Waldemar Krzok <waldemar@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 07:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ct-user] WHY NO online manual for CT?
Waldemar Krzok a écrit :
> >> Maybe they want a few hams to actually buy CT, as opposed to using
copies
> >> from friends...the manual is the one thing left not on that copy from
C: to
> >> A:
> >>
>
> poor argument. You have copy shops in USA, dont't you? So there
> are copy shops all over the world, some of them open 24h a day.
> Yes, to xerox the manual is a little bit more complicated and time
consuming
> than copy ct###.zip a:
Good argument. Mankind is lazy ...
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73 Gérard f6fgz
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