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Subject: Legal matters
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Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 15:07:18 EDT
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 05:01:12-EDT
From: uw-beaver!RMS%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: Legal matters
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA

How strange to find myself agreeing with Lauren--but I too hope that,
if you ever try to sell and protect software, you find that it has
been posted to networks without your permission.  That's the reward
that software protection deserves.  But I hope even more that you will
choose to share the software, as a responsible member of society does.

It is inevitable that amoral, greedy organizations and individuals
will discover new ways to refuse others their cooperation, so as to
keep others artificially dependent on them and thereby "earn" more
money.  As this happens, the alternative I present will look more and
more attractive.  I will provide users with programs whose sources
they are welcome to post, the more networks the merrier.

My free 68000 C compiler is coming in a few weeks.  It won't fit
in a mac, but could probably run on a lisa somehow.
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