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From: bill@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Disk Backup on the Macintosh(posting
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 00:18:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 00:18:50 1985
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Nf-From: haddock!bill    Jan 28 22:22:00 1985

>
>>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

    Yes, but only because shirts are hard to copy. They are relatively easy
    to steal individually.  The price of the protection is included in
    the price of the shirt, making it more expensive than it would be if
    people didn't steal shirts.

    I guess I don't see your point.

	 -- Bill Torcaso