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From: jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv
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Date: 27 Nov 90 15:07:02 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.020635.5916@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Nov26.022638.20419@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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In article <1990Nov26.022638.20419@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>,
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
|>Exactly.
|>
|>>> [...] money hungry grubbing people like Lotus [...]
|>> Or money hungry people like Apple.  Or Next.
|>
|>True.
|>
|>> Or the corner grocer.
|>
|>Invalid compaison.  The grocer is selling material goods, not pure
|>information.  (What's the difference?  If I give you an orange, I don't
|>have it afterwards.  If I give you a program, I do.)

Based on that argument, if I buy a record or compact disk, I should then
be able to make as many copies as a I want and give them to my friends.
Or place copies in public places so anyone can do the same, thus
saving them from having to actually pay for a copy. 
Or, if I were a musician myself, take any such recorded music and use
it as a background or whatever in music I was making myself.  After all,
even after I bought the copy of the music, the composer, performer,
and record company still have their original.  
                                   

Jim Mann
Stratus Computer
jim_mann@es.stratus.com