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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: v11INF3:  Poll on copyrights
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 11:53:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 11:53:03 1987
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>Just because someone places a restriction on something doesn't mean it
>has to be followed. I have no qualms about doing anything I damn well
>please with any piece of software I get my hands on.

By the same right, this means that if I want to borrow your car for some
drag racing (even if it happens to be locked) I should feel free, right?
Just because you don't want me to, well, that doesn't mean anything.

Or, say, I need some more CPU cycles. Your machine has a modem. If I can get
past your password restrictions, I have the perfect right to use YOUR
machine and YOUR software any way I want. Who cares what restrictions you
want on it. I'll do anything I damn well want with it. If I happen to need
more disk space than you have available, well, that's okay -- you didn't
need those files anyway.

Your attitude is a horrible rationalization. It is also illegal as hell. If
you take what you say and put it in some other context (as above) ESPECIALLY
a context where you might lose something of it instead of gain, it shows how
stupid and self-serving it is.

The word is theft. If you can't live with the restrictions the author puts
on their software, do what I do. Throw it out. This kind of rationalization,
this "I know better than the law does" attitude is piracy, is thievery, and
shows the lack of professionalism and maturity endemic to these kinds of
problems.

Chuq Von Rospach					chuq@sun.COM
Editor, OtherRealms					Delphi: CHUQ