Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and swapware
Message-ID: <8584@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 21:07:08 GMT
References: <2318@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2318@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>So... 
>What if you gave your friend the offsite backup, and when he wanted to 
>borrow the software, he just used the backup, but of course, you make sure
>that you don't use your copy (Original) while he is using the backup?

   Bzzzt!  (I couldn't resist).

Backups are just that ... backups.  If your using them regularily, then
they aren't a backup (certainly not in the sense intended by the law).

 Hope this clears something up for you.



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