Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!pesnta!hplabs!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Disk Backup on the Macintosh(posting Message-ID: <1352@hao.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 14:21:32 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1352 Posted: Wed Jan 23 14:21:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 09:48:45 EST References: <315@haddock.UUCP> <154@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 > > >From Bill Torcaso: > >Am I being ripped off when > >they install buzzer-gizmos to reduce shoplifting? In what way is commerce > >in software fundamentally different or fundamentally the same as the above? > > When you buy a shirt, the buzzer-gizmo comes off. > > Melinda When you buy a shirt, you don't have to worry about it turning into an empty box without warning, and you (generally) don't pay >$200 for a shirt. -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307