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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Patching Microsoft's Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <3862@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 16:03:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 16:03:41 1986
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <7817DMB@PSUVMA> DMB@PSUVMA.BITNET writes:
>    It seems to me whatever MicroSoft says, you can do anything
> you want to your copy of the program, legally.  From patching it
> to remove copyprotection, even to sticking it through a paper
> shredder.  If you buy a book it's yours and you can tear out as
> many pages as you like, or write on the pages in magenta crayon.

But a book is not a computer program.  Until someone interprets the
law as saying "a computer program is the same as a book", what you
can do to a book has nothing to do with what you can do to software.
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