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From: achilles@pro-angmar.UUCP (David Holland)
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Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information
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Date: 26 Apr 91 06:43:20 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from gundrum@svc.portal.com

 > How about people who buy lots of computer disks but never any 
 > commercial software?
 ?
 > This may be sufficient grounds for impounding all computer equipment
 > in a person's home. At least, until the original allegation was 
 > decided in court.
 
   One would hope not, since it's perfectly possible to run a computer
system on freely distributable software... or to write most of your own
software. Of course, you can't expect the government's computer "experts"
to think of that, or a grand jury composed of English and history majors
or such [ :-P ], so it could be a very real problem. 
 
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 David A. Holland
 
 pro-angmar!achilles@alfalfa.com ... alphalpha!pro-angmar!achilles
 
 CAD/CAM: Computer Aided Disaster/Computer Assisted Mayhem :-)