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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.rumor
Subject: Re: Fascist Licensing Agreement
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Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 01:25:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.12148
Posted: Fri Jun 27 01:25:17 1986
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Keywords: Down with Fascist Apple!!
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In article <1326@well.UUCP> dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry) writes:
>In article <12082@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>>I still say this. You should go look up Fascist in an encyclopedia.
>	OK.  Well, actually it's a dictionary, Mirriam-Webster to be
>precise:
>
>	fascism \......\ n 1: often cap: the body of principles held by
>		Fascisti.  2: a political philosophy, movement or regime
>		that exalts nation and race and stands for a centralized
>		autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader,
>		severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible
>		suppression of opposition.  - fascist adj. often cap.
>
>	Not actually knowing what body of principles Fascisti held
>I will have to assume that point to sums them up in a nut shell.  Hmm,
>well software distribution could be a movement.
>	"exalts nation and race"
>That might refer to you can't get the stuff from anybody else
>	"centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader"
>and that's the way its going to be until we decide differently.
>	"severe economic and forcible suppression of opposition"
>and we'll sue your pants off if you don't agree to it.
>
>	Well, if you actually stretch it just a little, it is a
>Fascist Doctrine.

That's a LOT of stretching. You're always forgetting they OWN the software.
There is a long way between distributing something free, and severe
economic anything. 

Any owner of a Macintosh can, without charge, get a copy of the Apple software,
by visiting his dealer (a distribution delay may be present). 
Any owner of a Macintosh can for a relatively small cost join Compuserve or
Delphi and download the software.

All OTHER avenues of obtaining the software are forbidden.	TRUE.


You have two choices:
	1. Agree not to pass out copies of the software.
	2. Don't get the software.

All other choices are illegal. Whether you like the law or not. But
take your poor attempt to equate it with Fascism into any professor of
law, logic, political science, or philosophy, and it will cause a lot of
laughter.

-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 (408) 749-5806
 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb
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 It may be stupid, it may be safe, but it's not Fascist!
 Stretch it a little, stretch it a lot,
 get your little rubber definitions here!