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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: RE Feedback on Computer Crime
Message-ID: <6XD5X36@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:56:58 GMT
References: <4c5548de.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <9008212119.AA10338@world.std.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <9008212119.AA10338@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> For example, in the case of Lotus vs Paperback Software we get a case
> that could be (perhaps unfairly) interpreted as the court putting
> someone out of business merely because they were a direct, close
> competitor.

I think (to borrow a term from Barry Shein) that it is important to
distinguish between the software piracy issue and look-n-feel copyrights.

'nuff said.
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