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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.033150.26375@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 03:31:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.020635.5916@midway.uchicago.edu> <3223@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <3223@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>, jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
> In article <1990Nov26.022638.20419@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
[hmmm, a couple of attribution lines are missing here...]
>>>> [...] money hungry grubbing people like Lotus [...]
>>> Or money hungry people like [...] 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.  [etc]

I was pointing out the invalidity of the analogy, not trying to argue
either side of the question.  (If you want my actual position on the
matter, I'll be glad to correspond by mail.)

					der Mouse

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