[Motorola] RSS

[Brandon]

----- Original Message -----
From: <N9LLO@aol.com>
To: <motorola@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Motorola] RSS


> Steve,
> There are a lot of Jerks on here that think they are the Motorola
Copyright
> police.
> I could care less where you get your RSS. There are some Russian sites
where
> it can be downloaded. There is lots of it right on the Yahoo Motorola-user
> board in the files section. The CD that was going around the hamfests
latley
> has about all on it.
> Every once in a while this CD pops up on ebay also. Last but not least you
> can play Motorolas game and pay the outragous price for it.
>
> Chris N9LLO
> P.S. I have found if you put your ham callsign on your post you usually
> recieve a disk
> in the mail.
>

The only reason I get upset about the whole piracy thing is two fold. One is
I know what the CPS costs as I have paid for it out of my own pocket and two
is it keeps the stolen radios down to a dull roar at least around here. We
look for stolens by comparing serials to a ongoing database. Even altered
radios may still have the OEM serial in the codeplug.
Now let me ask you this; would you want RSS that may be infected with a
virus or worse yet crash prone leaving you with a brain dead radio? No
thanks for me. Would you like this forum shut down because someone was
trading or offering pirated copies of RSS? doubt it.
I bought and paid for my RSS out of my own pocket and signed the long user
agreement with my own sweat. It irritates me when I spend several hundred
dollars for RSS only to find it in pirate form on the internet. Im not here
to play Motorola RSS cop but I will stand up for what I was brought up on
and that is honesty.

Im not accusing anyone of pirating software here nor am I saying two wrongs
make it right. Im simply pointing out that those who use pirated copies not
only subject themselves to killing a radio at the very least. I speak from
experience here as I was subject to review by Motorola several years back
and I do know what its about. I will agree that Motorola has become somewhat
of a monster similar to Microsoft and they do have the pockets for the
expensive lawyers.

If I came across as an accuser that was not my intent and if I did come
across as such Im sorry. All I ask is you be careful in how you procure your
software and use it. What you do in your home is your business and I could
care less. Just dont get bitten in the process.

Brandon
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