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From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher)
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Subject: Re: Software Piracy
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Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 12:55:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  1 12:55:12 1984
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Andrew Klossner's argument that stealing cars is like stealing
software would be quite correct if you could stick your car into
your garage, press a button, and make a duplicate car, and in
fact a lot of people did favors for their friends by making them
cars like this. If this happened I would say that the automobile
industry was in a lot of trouble. Nobody would think of making
it illegal to do this, though (except those who believe in
things like farm price supports). Clearly when a software
product comes out, a certain number of people are going to buy
the thing, and then a certain number of additional people are
going to get copies from them. Software companies should expect
this and market their products accordingly. For the government
to support those who cannot write good software and would not
survive without the "protection" of the copywrite laws is like
paying farmers to destroy their crops to keep food prices
high...

	Wayne Christopher