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We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists.

Software is digital through and through, and yet theres one unavoidable aspect of software installation that remains thoroughly analog: entering the registration key.

Like all piracy solutions-- short of completely server hosted applications and games, where piracy means youd have to host your own rogue server-- its an incomplete client-side solution.

How effective is it One vendor implemented code to detect false registration keys and phone home with some basic information such as the IP address when these false keys are entered.

But it is data, and without the registration key concept (and pervasive internet connectivity), wed have no data whatsoever to quantify how much piracy actually exists.

The BSA estimated 35 of all software was pirated in 2006, but it is just that-- an estimate.

You could, in fact, argue that registration key validation actually works.

Microsoft recently stated that the piracy rate of Vista is half that of XP, largely due to improvements in their Windows Genuine Advantage program -- Microsofts global registration key validation service.

As a software developer, I can empathize with Microsoft to a degree.

Unless you oppose the very concept of commercial software, there has to be some kind of enforcement in place.

Unless you provide some disincentives, thats exactly what people will do-- theyll pay nothing for your software.

Microsofts history with piracy goes way, way back-- all the way back to the original microcomputers.

Witness Bill Gates Open Letter To Hobbyists, written in 1976.

Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC.

Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC.

The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive.

Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these users never bought BASIC (less than 10 of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than 2 an hour.

Why is this As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software.

Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share.

Is this fair One thing you dont do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had.

The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation.

One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.

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