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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re:  ST piracy
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Date: 28 Jun 89 04:06:00 GMT
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In article <890627.22503916.027053@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
>    His Uncle Bob needs an RGB monitor but doesn't have the
>money.  The molecular code is available on Joe User's disk.
>He downloads the code,  installs it in his cloner, and
>presto.  He has an RGB monitor.
>    Is the above ridiculous?  Is it piracy or is it
>stealing?

It's sci.nanotech, where discussions about exactly this sort of thing can
usually be found.  (A VERY interesting newsgroup; read K. Eric Drexler's
excellent book "Engines Of Creation" first, as he discusses a lot of this
too.  All this is not science fiction, or won't be for much longer.)

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These are my opinions, which you can probably ignore if you want to.
Steven Grimm		Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st
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