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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: piracy
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Date: Sat, 21-Apr-84 13:25:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 21 13:25:27 1984
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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The traditional capitalist cure for "extortionate prices" is free market
competition.  It might be worth discussing what factors seem to be
impeding this in software development/marketing.

The Robin Hood approach to entrenched power doesn't work nearly as well
against service/idea property as against either real estate or tangible
property.  It's hard getting good service or ideas out of someone who feels
unhappy.  Merely taking a person's land/valuables away is a lot easier.

--Lee Gold
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	Barry Gold
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