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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re: re: zork like game for HP 3000-BAH!
Message-ID: <1830@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 21:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 21:31:00 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Aug-83 01:22:30 EDT
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Bah, humbug!  Why should someone work on a project, just to give it
away because the stupid, jacka**ed patent laws won't allow a person to
protect the work that he or she does, and that he or she was a  perfectly
reasonable right to protect.  Just because someone won't let you steal their
computer program that they took the time and effort to write, you condemn
them, and all their kind.  

I hereby condemn you instead.

Sure you like to steal software, it doesn't "hurt" anybody by
duplicating something so they don't lose it, you say.
Bulls**t again!  You've stolen the money that they wanted, and damn
well deserved for writing their particular piece of software. 

If you steal software, you should consider yourself in the same
catagory as people who steal from Brinks, etc.  You are a thief,
a criminal, and morally rotten.

Some day this stupid Congress will realize that patent and
copyright laws are holding back progress, and do something about them.
Look, you know, I know, everyone knows of programs that would have been
released if only there was a way to account for their dispersion, and
to legally control it.

Long live PSL, Scott whoever, and anyone else who has the moral courage
to keep control over their own property!

Down with thieves and scoundrels.