It’s about time, I think, that I started some sort of public blog. I had one before, except then some friendly people who actually knew me got the link and had a bit of a field day with it. So I shut them off from it. That was in May 2003.
So almost two years later, I’m trying something different. Because there’s a nicely sized Intraweb out there, and I’m looking to actually have something of mine available to it. Thus, I established this. Apologies for the name, I’m truly not that inventive (though I capitalized the B in blog to prevent any mistakes in word-separation). Your ideas are appreciated. But we’ll see how this goes.
First on the agenda: developers, how they protect their applications against piracy, and how far they can and should go. In the interest of disclosing relevant details of my background, I am not a commercial software developer, and I’m not running a single piece of pirated software on either my computer or my PDA(s). Personally I rely on freeware and open-source software because I’ve found they can usually get the job done for my needs just as well as any commercial program.
There was a case in the 80s, the reference to which I credit to a poster in a thread to which I will link later, about a subway vigilante. It’s rather interesting if you’re unfamiliar with the case, it’s basically the case of a man shooting four kids because he thought they were robbing him. What does that have to do with software piracy? Keep reading.