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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What a dongle is (Was Re: Copy protection: boycott it!)
Message-ID: <4531@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 14:37:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 14:37:56 1987
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Keywords: licensing vs purchase; reasonableness

In article <776@cod.UUCP> rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
<replicate and sell copies of the program stored on that disk.  I don't
<like a lot of the details of software licensing, but I recognize that
<nobody would bother to create software if the licensing protection did
<not exist.

So why is there some much PD and PA software? Why are the PD
programming tools on micros better than the commercial competition?
Why does the Free Software Foundation exist?

No, you're wrong. People would continue to create software even if
there was no copyright protection. The people motivated by curiosity
and need for better tools, not greed, would still be motivated. And
those are probably the best people creating software.

	<mike
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