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From: amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman (AmigaMan))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and swapware
Message-ID: <50107@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 01:36:11 GMT
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In article <8584@cognos.UUCP> stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter) writes:

>   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).

	Bzzzt!  (neither could I!)
When I got my Workbench 1.3, I made a copy.  I use that copy (a backup!?)
everyday.  I put the original away for safe keeping.  The reason to keep a
backup isn't so you can restore your original if it should go bad, it's so you
can use a copy other than your original to be sure that nothing, in fact, DOES
happen to your original.

If I'm being a pirate because I use the copy to run while I keep my original
safe, then come arrest me.

(Please note that this is not intended to be an attack on Stewart, just his
thoughts.)

>Stewart Winter                Cognos Incorporated   S-mail: P.O. Box 9707

AMH
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