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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and swapware
Message-ID: <2524@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:04:57 GMT
References: <2318@corpane.UUCP> <8584@cognos.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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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).

> Hope this clears something up for you.


BZZT! (neither could I)

Backup are the ones to be used, not the Original. You make a backup, and
put away the original for safe keeping. If the backup gets destroyed you
take out the original and make another backup.

A better word than backup would be 'duplicate', I guess. 

And as far as the law goes, I can make a backup and I can use the backup
or the original, whichever I want. But using the original is not a bright idea.

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