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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: More on ROM extraction
Keywords: ROM,Piracy,extract,48
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:02:10 GMT
References: <10594@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <10594@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
(Scott Burke) writes:


|>                                                .... I think that backing
|>    up a very reliable ROM card is a flimsy excuse for public distribution 
|>    of the ROM extraction code.
|>
 
I agree.  The code should be posted because there's no reason not to,
not because someone found an reason why it should be.  It's improper to
decide in advance what use is going to be made of the program when you
don't know.  It's a matter of intellectual freedom.  Arguments about the
potential for unlawful use should not prevail, since unlawful use by
definition means that there is a law in place already to handle the
situation.  

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                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

If I was authorized to speak for my employer, I'd be too important to
waste my time on this crap....