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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re:Piracy -- xeroxing vs. copying software
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Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 14:50:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 25 14:50:15 1984
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There is an important difference between copying software and copying books.
It is almost always cheaper to copy floppy software than to buy it.
But it is often MORE expensive to copy a book (or the manual accompanying
the software) than to buy it.

The kicker is that people often choose between:
	- I buy the book, I pay for it
	- I copy the book, my department's general budget pays for it.

So people xerox illegally at a financial loss, since they do not eat the
loss directly.  This strange state of affairs has driven publishers to
distraction.  They cannot, in many cases, try to discourage xeroxing by
pricing low.  But in the case of illegal xeroxing, there are sometimes actually
two thefts:
	(1) from the publisher
	(2) from the gneral operating budget of some department
					- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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