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From: gtolar@pro-europa.cts.com (Glynne Tolar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: piracy
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Date: 15 Nov 89 01:25:28 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from mattd@apple.com

>In our economy, if you don't like what the producer produces, you don't buy
>it. You don't just take it and then decide if you want to pay for it or not.
>Any other description is just self-justification for illegal activities, no
>matter how you slice it.

There is one BIG flaw in that theory.  Software manufactures seem to write
WOUNDERFUL things about their products.  When you buy the and take them home
you quickly discover that it was not at all cracked up to be.  This is not
always true, but DOES happen.  Thus sales are based on deception as opposed to
usefulness.  I'd love to see a software manufacture sued under the Texas
Deceptive Trade Parctices Act when they try to sell you something that ain't. 
Then again, ZipChip ought to be nailed under those conditions!
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