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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: piracy
Summary: All topics must eventually die
Message-ID: <36474@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 20:02:12 GMT
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I agree with the many that this discussion is getting nowhere, and will stop it.
I will end my participation with two thoughts:

1)  In the case of computer software, the disk, the manual and the box are not
the product being sold.  The information on the disk and in the manual are.
If you use the information without the permission of the owners, something has
gone wrong.

This does not make any judgments on whether or not information should be
protected or copyrightable. I merely state that it is and we are bound by the
law to respect it, or work through the system to change it.

2)  I fully support software stores that allow exchanges for bad programs
(Two big chains that come to mind that have done this for me in the past are
Egghead and Software Etc.) and encourage all in netland to do the same.

And hopefully the debate ends not with a bang, but with a whiner.  :)


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