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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Feedback on Computer Crime
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Date: 13 Aug 90 16:02:57 GMT
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From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd@ucsd.edu  (jeff daiell)
>I find absolutely appalling the irrational premise that those who
>wish to be paid for their software work are 'scum'.  This is sheer
>-- and pernicious -- idiocy, as is any attempt to compare them to 
>the pirates who steal the software work of others.

Red herring? Did anyone call people who want to be paid for software
work scum? I know RMS gets about $250/hr for his software work and
makes no bones about it, for example.

I think Jeff is just trying to stir the pot by setting up straw men
(no doubt as a prelude to some forthcoming political soapboxing.)

Sit on your hands, you're being baited.

        -Barry Shein

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