Re: Times change
No, Spice came from a university, in those days Uni software was free, copyrighted bur free. Others may have prayed on others ignorance but where I worked we got a copy of Spice for a the price of Tape and Postage. It was hard to find out who you actually needed to contact pre-internet but if you could find the right people you were OK, Many brokers would offer to get you stuff for a fee but in universities you normally knew from conference papers pretty much who to contact and they shared stuff pretty freely. It was only when the PC took off the idea of free software disappeared and had to be replaced.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
