Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site callan.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcnc!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!proper!callan!geoff From: geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.legal,net.flame Subject: Software piracy Message-ID: <143@callan.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 21:12:24 EST Article-I.D.: callan.143 Posted: Tue Apr 3 21:12:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Apr-84 00:59:47 EST Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 14 A small point for those who think overpriced software provides justification for "appropriating" it at no cost: If I think a car, a diamond ring, or a hamburger is overpriced, I have a simple response: I don't buy it. Instead, I go somewhere where I can buy it at a price I find reasonable. That's called "free-market capitalism". What I *don't* do is sneak in behind the back of the person who is overpricing the product and avail myself of it free of charge. That's called "theft". Geoff Kuenning Callan Data Systems ...!ihnp4!sdcrdcf!trwrb!wlbr!callan!geoff Vax? Is that a 68000 with the bytes going the other way?