An Optimistic Approach to Software Piracy By Charles Bowen and J. Stewart Schneider from the January/February 1983 issue of TODAY magazine Fellow man. It’s the kind of faith that, if contagious, could spawn a whole new kind of marketing in the microcomputer community. At a time when major software houses are spending tens of thousands of dollars in what some say is a futile effort to protect their programs against pirates, a man named Andrew Fluegelman gives his programs away.