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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rastan GS
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Date: 8 Oct 90 01:57:53 GMT
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In article <7586@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>In article <9096@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>>I do *NOT* equate "hacker" with "good programmer".
>	Well then I presume you've not been in the computer hobbyist
>"field" long enough.

I don't believe I just read that.

[stuff about "hacker" removed ... consult the Official Jargon file]

>>BTW, "cracking" a game is definitely illegal based on current copyright laws.
>	If I buy a piece of software, I can do anything with it. Or a book,
>or a record, anything... Books are software for the mind, and records are
>software for a record player... heh... 

You are purchasing the media.  You are (in most cases) merely getting a
license from the software company to run the software on your machine.
Therefore you may mutilate the disk, but CANNOT alter the program.

Modifying the words in a book or the music on a record really doesn't have
much meaning.  However, I suggest you check out laws regarding "derivative
works", and that you not listen to a word I'm saying since I'm not a lawyer.

>/               Apple II(GS) Forever!    unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu               \
>\"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/

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