[ct-user] WHY NO online manual for CT?

[Mike Walker]

hmmm

Must be time to add the fact that you need an authorization key in order to 
run CT.  Where do I sign!

I will bet  that less that 50% of the users of CT have actually paid for 
it, or their copy of DOS or Windows.

If  you didn't pay, shame on you.  Hams are so cheap.  Always wanting the 
latest and greatest, but not willing to cough up the bucks.  (Apologies to 
those that I offended).

Also, if you didn't pay, you DON'T get to complain about what the software 
doesn't do.

It is my findings that 90% of the users of any application have no clue how 
much time and aggravation go into developing a product like this.

Go ahead... flame away!

Mike VA3MW

At 07:24 PM 2/8/2001, Jim White, K4OJ wrote:

>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 ...
>
>--
>73 Gérard f6fgz
>
>
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